Mother Knows Best
August 30, 2022
The anti-work novel gets a maternal twist.
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Everyone’s a Critic
August 25, 2022
A radical tradition of cultural critique is at risk of extinction.
Hell, or Catalonia
August 24, 2022
Catalan separatism under the microscope.
Chronicles of Deaths Foretold
The military’s extrajudicial killings in Colombia.
Fresh Hell
August 19, 2022
Dark Fate
Has the planet Earth always been an inhospitable hell pit, or have we merely become more articulate in enumerating its horrors? Researchers in the Gulf of Mexico have discovered a new monster with eleven spines clearly up to no good as it waits out man’s mass ...
Ailing Empire Blues
August 18, 2022
Can America avoid Britain’s post-imperial fate of never-ending culture war?
Digital Deconversion
August 17, 2022
Becoming an ex-Jehovah’s Witness, online.
Untitled Poems III & IV
III.
People are asses. I hang bells from their necks so they can sing to me while I recline on a rock.
People are fools. I’ll hang them up in the wardrobe like winter clothes.
May’s barley is about to ripen. Each stalk has lined up its seeds in orderly fashion so ...
The Sounds of Internment
August 16, 2022
“Smash Internment and Injustice!” turns fifty.
Oozing Class
August 15, 2022
On the border-crossing German novelist Wolfgang Hilbig.
Fresh Hell
August 12, 2022
Your Friends in Tech
When the Supreme Court incinerated its vestigial claims to legitimacy earlier this summer with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, certain quarters of the internet resounded with inexplicable optimism about all the wondrous ways in which Big Tech would come ...
His Later Life and Works
Short fiction by Reid Sharpless.