Mixed Signals
On the divided loyalties of today’s America Firsters.
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A Deal with the Devil
Short fiction by Sara Nović.
Machines Against the Rage
February 24, 2022
Put down your smartphone—so you can be more productive?
Sex Miseducation
February 23, 2022
A bildungsroman of boomer hermeneutics.
Forty-Four Thoughts for Cecil Taylor
February 22, 2022
A literary improvisation.
Cold Comfort
February 21, 2022
Sarah Manguso’s icy debut novel.
Fresh Hell
February 18, 2022
Get the Band Back Together
For weeks now, we, the doomscrolling public, have been trapped in the tenacious drum circle of Western media, which, having grown bored of the plenitude of other crises besieging our species, seem hellbent on summoning the hallucinatory fog of war ...
Intolerant India
Anti-Muslim rage is running amok throughout India.
Revolt of the Super-Employees
February 17, 2022
On the political resentment of America’s little bosses.
Steering the Fed
February 15, 2022
Can a new coalition push the Fed toward humane economics?
How Should a Person Tree?
February 14, 2022
On Sheila Heti’s creation myth.
Fresh Hell
February 11, 2022
Motherfucking Crocodile of Wall Street!
Earlier this week, in a perfect illustration of the shady dealings, probable personality disorders, and desperate #grindset influencers propping up the cryptocurrency boom, Manhattan couple Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were ...