The World Was Just an Address
March 24, 2022
The Oscars are the abandoned auto show of the movie industry.
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Beautiful Lies
March 23, 2022
Why does our discourse about beauty remain so shallow?
The Prosecutor’s Presidency
March 22, 2022
On South Korea’s newly elected president, Yoon Suk-yeol.
The View from Warsaw
March 21, 2022
After decades of conflict, Poland stands in solidarity with Ukraine.
Fresh Hell
March 18, 2022
James Bond: The Origin Story: The Movie: The Series
On Thursday afternoon, Amazon closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM, less than twenty-four hours after Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill that would—were it to go absolutely anywhere in a Democrat-controlled ...
The Ukrainian Appeal
Zelensky's speech to Congress asked the United States to save his country.
Tatar Raspberry
Short fiction by Vladimir Sorokin.
The Billionaire’s Bard
March 16, 2022
On the rationalist fictions of Neal Stephenson.
The Man Who Writes Newspaper Articles While The Trees Disappear And No One Listens
For several daysmy grandfather cried.In the end he admitted he was alone,as though he didn’t have seven sonswho had given him twenty-five grandchildren.
My grandmother at home,a basket of figs between her feet,is daydreaming as she carefully peelsand feeds them to my ...
The New Neurasthenia
March 15, 2022
How “burnout” became the buzzword of the moment.
Remember the Potemkin
March 14, 2022
Memories of Odessa.
Fresh Hell
March 11, 2022
It’s a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World!Last Wednesday, the U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield took to the floor of the United Nations to emphatically condemn Russia’s use of cluster munitions in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, arguing that they, among other vicious weapons, ...