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Against Our Vanishing
July 12, 2021
Before the publication of her photo book The Other Side in 1993, Nan Goldin asked her old friend Shellburne Thurber to return to the site of its namesake, the decadent drag bar in Boston that played slightly passé disco. Twenty years earlier, it had been their nightly hangout ...

Fresh Hell
July 09, 2021
The Forever Poké War With little fanfare, the United States withdrew the last of its remaining forces from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan—from which the military waged an unconscionably expensive war for nearly two decades—last week. But the digital traces of the occupation ...

Fresh Hell
July 02, 2021
Ketchup on the Good News As millions of Americans prepare to fire up their grills to celebrate our god awful, god-fearing nation’s forging in the fires of racist violence 245 years ago, the refined minds of Insider have a word of advice: “Just because you can cook outside ...

Carob Tree
I want to talk with you. It’s been a whilesince anyone’s talked with me, no one aroundsays to me the things I say to youwhen I’m sleepwalking.For example, yesterday at 3AM the soldiers rainedtear gas bombs on us, ten workerswho crammed in a walk-in refrigerator for ...