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Memory

Sheikha Hlewa

June 21, 2022

Poems From Palestine

All is disordered in my usurped Bedouin memory.The young man who was electrocuted as he watered his fieldwas a potential groom for several little girls.His pores were potential lanterns in the dark after that charge of light.In all possibilities, memory betrays me.Was he a ...

Psychocandy

Milo Nesbitt

June 20, 2022

Art versus the algorithm.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

June 17, 2022

Got Milk? The children are our future, which is why, in this maniacally self-destructive country, we routinely subject them to mass slaughter; allow millions of them to live in wretched, soul-crushing poverty; poison them with lead; propagandize them to within an inch of ...

Bruised Fruit

Adam Morris

June 16, 2022

Uncrowding the mantel of gay saints.

Our Man in Hollywood

Joel Whitney

June 15, 2022

With help from the CIA, Joseph Mankiewicz took a stand against “anti-Americanism.”

Blues and Roots

John Washington

June 14, 2022

On the many faces of Charles Mingus.

California Stars

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

June 13, 2022

Pole workers unite in North Hollywood.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

June 10, 2022

Shock and Awes Last Sunday morning in the Fort Worth, Texas, suburb of Watauga, Pastor Dillon Awes of Stedfast Baptist Church celebrated Pride Month with a rousing sermon on homosexuals, who are, in his Bible-addled view, without exception pedophiles who are so “dangerous ...

Let Us Prey

Rafia Zakaria

June 10, 2022

Alienated

Texas authorities are determined to hunt down “illegals.”

Patterns of Meaning

Robert Rubsam

June 09, 2022

Inside Gerald Murnane’s infinitely expanding mind.

Palais Intrigue

James Wham

June 08, 2022

For all its cash-flashing and celebrity worship, Cannes still offers moments of possibility.

Never Gonna Give You Up

Adrian Nathan West

June 07, 2022

Ending elite capture.