Edith Wharton’s Hauntology
October 27, 2021
Knowing and unknowing in Wharton’s “tales of the uncanny.”
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My Enemies Defeated Me / For Nothing
My enemies defeated me, led me downhill,executed my horse, and made me watch.My enemies defeated me, sold my mats, rugs,and colored rosaries at the bazaarto merchants and traders in shadows.In the dark my friends betrayed me.My children saw the hyena laugh outside our window.At ...
The Florida Projects
October 26, 2021
There’s no shortage of places to call home, if only for a little while, in Florida’s Osceola County—plenty of sumptuous McMansions await vacationers on secular pilgrimage to the Magic Kingdom, and Jimmy Buffett-themed timeshares enable visitors to buy into their own ...
Fresh Hell
October 22, 2021
Why You Gotta Be So Mean?
Earlier this year, rumors began to fly that Pfizer, enabled by our wondrous intellectual property regime, might possibly have been bullying governments in Covid-19 vaccine negotiations. The multinational conglomerate, it seems, not only wanted liability ...
Festival of Fear
The Jaipur Literature Festival serves as marketing for an increasingly repressive India.
The Novel According to Bezos
October 21, 2021
Has Amazon changed literature?
The Never-Ending Story
October 20, 2021
Storytelling amid the ruins in Joy Williams’s “Harrow.”
Fresh Hell
October 15, 2021
The Nightmare of History
Generally speaking, “history,” as it’s taught to children suffering through our glorious public education system, has tended to accept that the Holocaust—during which, it might be recalled, some six million Jewish men, women, and children were ...
Thunderheads
Short fiction by Michael Bible.
Taxis Take a Stand
October 14, 2021
In New York City, cabbies are protesting 24/7 for debt relief.
Hey, Kids, Who Screwed the Climate?
October 13, 2021
The fight against fossil fuels needs intergenerational solidarity.
Fresh Hell
October 08, 2021
The United Nations & Co.
The United Nations General Assembly launched into its seventy-sixth session last month, an interminable parade of proclamations and resolutions and revisions to previous proclamations and resolutions that will set the stage for Sustainable ...