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Silver Screen Sphinxes
April 04, 2022
How Greta Garbo and Buster Keaton invented celebrity privacy.
Fresh Hell
April 01, 2022
Semiotics of the Slap
Last Sunday evening, Hollywood’s Best and Brightest—swaddled in Versace, dripping in diamonds—gathered once more in the Dolby Theatre to memorialize the bloated, festering corpse of cinema. In hopes of livening up the solemnities, Oscar statuettes ...
A Year in the Face
Short fiction by Nathan Dragon
Reality Bites Back
March 30, 2022
Has David Shields given his very last interview?
The Man and His Girlfriend Who Argued All of Last Night and Now Stand at a Pharmacy in R City to Buy Medication for Headaches
Look.Over there.The sea isn’t visible yet,though we’ve been driving for two hours.Though we’ve begun to feel its hot moist air.Though our clothes are sticking to our bodies.
In the car we eat grapes and don’t talk,as if the sweat oozing from our bodiesis how we ...
Ireland, We Hardly Knew Ye
March 29, 2022
Against history-by-columnist.
What Makes Foreign Policy “Feminist”?
Germany’s leaders talk about a “feminist foreign policy” that requires more armaments.
At the Safari Carabobo
March 28, 2022
An immigrant’s memories of Caracas.
Fresh Hell
March 25, 2022
Riders on the Storm
Text messages between conservative activist Virginia Thomas and Donald Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, obtained through Congress’s investigation into the January 6 Capitol riot, reveal that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence ...
Heavily Made Up
March 25, 2022
Don't look now, but it's “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”