India Walton’s Uphill Battle
September 16, 2021
On the fiscal challenges facing Buffalo’s potential next mayor.
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The Spies of Others
September 15, 2021
The West uses the Stasi to tell a flattering story about itself.
Reflection
Yesterday, I handed all my poems to my publisher.I feel like I handed him my headand the words I speak from now onwill come out of his mouth.What a disaster!
Disasters don’t show up one at a time.They arrive in legions like a starving hoard.A poet said this then died.For ...
The Architect’s (Auto)biographer
September 14, 2021
Minoru Yamasaki has never enjoyed particularly great estimation in the annals of architectural history. His long career has become, for many, a caricature or outright failure, the stuffing wedged between the two disasters of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis and the ...
The Story of the Lost Novel
September 13, 2021
Reading the book Simone de Beauvoir decided not to publish.
Fresh Hell
September 10, 2021
The Siren’s Call
Last month in Buffalo, New York, workers at the nation’s preeminent purveyor of extra caramel, no whip, light ice battery acid announced they were forming a union: Starbucks Workers United. In response, the company—which reported $19.16 billion in revenue ...
Requiem for the City
Will New York City recover after the pandemic?
Shapes
A new short story by Jordan Moffatt.
The Age of Innocence
September 09, 2021
An Arab American upbringing in the shadow of 9/11.
Saviors or Speculators?
September 08, 2021
Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador
Fresh Hell
September 03, 2021
We Didn’t Start the Fire
Though we, the people of this disintegrating empire, are simultaneously beset with unprecedented wildfires, unprecedented flooding, and reaccelerating mass death, that’s certainly no reason to go without, for the second year in a row, that dusty, ...
Queer Memories in Beijing
September 02, 2021
On a summer night in June 1996, queer men and women crammed into the Half and Half, a narrow bar nestled on a back street of Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood, for what was, ostensibly, a birthday party. Plainclothes cops were in attendance, too. They had followed Wu Chunsheng, ...