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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

June 03, 2022

Straight Extinction Once more, Pride month is upon us, drawing the likes of Burger King, Bank of America, and the Pinkertons into a short-lived orgy of superficial solidarity with LGBTQ individuals, who, despite these avowals of support from for-profit entities, are ...

Ancient Aliens

Hubert Adjei-Kontoh

June 03, 2022

Fiction

Short fiction by Hubert Adjei-Kontoh.

Sniffed Out

Reece Sisto

June 02, 2022

The Pokémon Go for Getting Off.

Out in the Street

Lisa Hsiao Chen

June 01, 2022

Tehching Hsieh defiantly foregrounded his own vulnerability.

Mahmoud

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat

May 31, 2022

Poems From Palestine

Mahmoud could have been our son.I’d have objected to the nameand, for family reasons, you’d have insisted on it.We could have bought him a crib with a blue quiltand hung spinning musical animalsto coax him to sleep,could have stayed up all night for his first ...

Victims of History

Federico Perelmuter

May 31, 2022

Antonio Di Benedetto captured the contradictions of midcentury Latin America.

Suffer the Little Children

Felipe De La Hoz

May 30, 2022

Detained migrant babies in the crosshairs of the GOP’s culture war.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

May 27, 2022

Soldiers of Tomorrow Mere minutes before an eighteen-year-old armed with a weapon optimized for mass slaughter waltzed into an elementary school and murdered nineteen children and two teachers, Reuters shared a heartwarming story of two Ukranian children—Andrii, age ...

The Almighty Gun

Rafia Zakaria

May 27, 2022

Alienated

The United States has become a society that practices child sacrifice.

The Dunce Party

Rachel Bryan

May 26, 2022

Tennessee lawmakers attempt to rid schools of “divisive concepts.”

Tricks of the Trade

Jack Hanson

May 25, 2022

In Emily Hall’s “The Longcut,” an artist prevaricates endlessly about the nature of her work.

Escape from Dimes Square

Will Harrison

May 24, 2022

Surveying the grim carnival of Dimes Square.