Those Who Can Do
September 02, 2021
Rewriting the history of literary studies, from inside the classroom
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War Games
September 01, 2021
Activision Blizzard reaps its own bitter fruits.
Obeidah the Cow
We had a cow, Obeidah the cow.
She had big wide eyesbut the whole herd had big wide eyes.
She was dappledbut the rest of them were dappled.
She had two large uddersthat daily gave two or three buckets of milkbut every other cow in the herd had full uddersmy mom milked ...
Unsolved Mysteries
August 30, 2021
In Passing Time, Michel Butor turns the detective novel inside out.
Fresh Hell
August 27, 2021
Blair Bitch Project
As the United States’ bungled withdrawal from its bungled twenty-year, multi-trillion-dollar exercise in “nation-building” nears its inevitably violent conclusion, many of the politicians who so gleefully rallied to the cause back in the day have what ...
The Global Garage
August 24, 2021
Militarized frontiers get a tech-savvy makeover.
Singing in Dark Times
August 23, 2021
Michael Robbins, between hope and despair.
Fresh Hell
August 20, 2021
Pity the Parasite
Earlier this month, the Biden administration kicked the eviction crisis further down the road with yet another stopgap moratorium on forcibly unhousing people during the pandemic’s hasty resurgence—and from sea to acidifying sea, landlords are pissed. While ...
Meet the Imperial Feminist
Gertrude Bell was unable to see all women as deserving equal rights
How Empires Fall
August 19, 2021
On the Berlin Wall, the “August Coup,” and the decline of Great Powers
A Small Eternity
Alone, soaring, my balcony a cloud
in the sky’s gentle hold,
I look out on a beach, a paradise
where the green (whispering, roaring)
has said all it has to say.
A green that almost glows with pistachio-colored edges.
A green that suckles, crawls,
grows into bright apricot
and ...
Can You Hear Me Now?
August 16, 2021
A new history of teletherapy highlights the flexibility of the therapeutic frame.