El Alto Chronicles
July 18, 2022
Quya Reyna is a young Aymara writer who casts a light urban indigeneity in Bolivia.
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Fresh Hell
July 15, 2022
Flash! Bang!Last Thursday morning, a SWAT team raided a home in southeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, where a man wanted for violating his parole had barricaded himself. In hopes of luring the twenty-seven-year-old out, officers fired smoke and flashbang grenades into the ...
Yours Truly, Adonis
We didn’t like thinking about that day. A man isn’t meant to remember his own birth.
Invitation to a Flogging
July 14, 2022
Ottessa Moshfegh’s crude omniscience.
Closing Time
July 13, 2022
If there is one thing people love to proclaim dead, it’s the shopping mall.
The Woman without Qualities
July 12, 2022
Mieko Kawakami investigates feminine identity in the absence of consumption.
No Days Off
July 11, 2022
When workplace tracking technologies become less invasive, their use is normalized.
Fresh Hell
July 08, 2022
Pity the Billionaire
Sure, the first half of 2022 has been financially tough for the average American, what with gas prices at historic highs, record-breaking rent spikes, ballooning grocery bills, and a floundering stock market that’s wiped out nearly $3 trillion in ...
Art Is the New Puberty
July 07, 2022
David Cronenberg's new film is both a return to form and a reckoning with the body in revolt.
Cruel and Unusual Nourishment
July 06, 2022
The quality of food in prisons has reached crisis levels.
Exam
My mother’s lessons are too late.After all we’ve lived through—the years she countsin precise concurrence with the Nakbaand the ones I count while I bite my tongue—she insists on lecturing me, word by word, all at once.She shows no consideration for my chronic ...
Fresh Hell
July 01, 2022
Rocket Men
On Thursday afternoon, the final day of a “blockbuster term” some hysterical observers are referring to as having the makings of a “judicial coup,” the Supreme Court drastically curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to stall or reverse ...