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Fresh Hell
November 05, 2021
I’ve Had the Time of My Life
World leaders descended on Glasgow this week to assure the masses that they ab-so-lutely understand the severity of the climate crisis. Boris Johnson, taking the stage, adopted an appropriately grim tone: “Humanity has long since run down the ...
Trump’s Apprentice?
In France, TV talk-show provocateur Éric Zemmour eyes the presidency.
A Living Weapon in Your Hand
November 03, 2021
Diane di Prima's poetry combined revolutionary ideas and spiritual fervor.
When He Reaches His Solitude in Full
He closes the door, turns off the lightsexcept the hallway’s which leads to the fenceand lets him peek at the bougainvillea
and the branches of the sweet apple he planted last winter. Inside his room one candleby the window will do.
A smokey candle and its ...
Left Behind
November 02, 2021
The Build Back Better Act makes families a bargaining chip.
The Well-Upholstered Nightmare
November 01, 2021
We first see it emblazoned upon the book’s cover, and then once more on its opening page: a resplendent photograph of a mid-sized Spanish Colonial at dusk. Light appears to travel through the image somehow—a quality derived from a long exposure time—receding as the ...
Fresh Hell
October 29, 2021
Jackass: The Emoji
Following yet another round of ruthless pruning, the provisionally definitive form of President Biden’s domestic spending bill emerged late this week. Shorn of a billionaire tax, a corporate tax increase, paid family leave of any duration, a clean ...
Sincerely, from Some Other Side of the Mountain
Short fiction by Adrian Van Young.
Edith Wharton’s Hauntology
October 27, 2021
Knowing and unknowing in Wharton’s “tales of the uncanny.”
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 ...