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Short fiction by Brian Evenson.
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No Exit
July 22, 2021
As the U.S. considers intervention in Haiti, refugees are turned away.
Drug War Fables
July 21, 2021
El Chapo is the face of a curiosity we cannot escape.
Empire 2.0
July 20, 2021
On the “imperial nostalgia” driving British culture war.
Fresh Hell
July 16, 2021
Bezos and His Daemen
On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos, by dint of his billions, will zip-zoom up to the edge of outer space in his Blue Origin rocket, inaugurating a new era of conspicuous wealth-waste that will, in the words of Richard Branson—who beat Bezos to space by nine ...
Against the Universe
July 16, 2021
Space Jam: A New Legacy takes the cinematic universe to its logical conclusion.
Writer on the Storm
July 14, 2021
George R. Stewart’s ecofictions forecasted today’s calamities.
Nakba
My mother is three years younger than Nakba.But she doesn’t believe in great powers.Twice a day she brings God down from his thronethen reconciles with himthrough the mediation of the bestrecorded Quranic recitations.And she can’t bear meek women.She never once mentioned ...
Broader Crises
July 13, 2021
Indian border-crossers illuminate the interconnectedness of mass migration.
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 ...
Hollywood Justice
The celebrity lawyer’s myopic pursuit of international justice.