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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

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

Nathan Dragon

April 01, 2022

Fiction

Short fiction by Nathan Dragon

He, Robot

Ian Wang

March 31, 2022

“After Yang” struggles to be more than a metaphor.

Reality Bites Back

Andrew Schenker

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

Dalia Taha

March 29, 2022

Poems From Palestine

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

Jack Sheehan

March 29, 2022

Against history-by-columnist.

What Makes Foreign Policy “Feminist”?

Rafia Zakaria

March 28, 2022

Alienated

Germany’s leaders talk about a “feminist foreign policy” that requires more armaments.

At the Safari Carabobo

Ruxandra Guidi

March 28, 2022

An immigrant’s memories of Caracas.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

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

Jessa Crispin

March 25, 2022

Don't look now, but it's “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”

The World Was Just an Address

A. S. Hamrah

March 24, 2022

The Oscars are the abandoned auto show of the movie industry.

Beautiful Lies

Kalpana Mohanty

March 23, 2022

Why does our discourse about beauty remain so shallow?