The Story of the Lost Novel
September 13, 2021
Reading the book Simone de Beauvoir decided not to publish.
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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, ...
Those Who Can Do
September 02, 2021
Rewriting the history of literary studies, from inside the classroom
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.