Where Does It End?
June 28, 2021
135 questions for those who shape and (sometimes) occupy New York City’s extreme upper skyline.
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Fresh Hell
June 25, 2021
One of These Things is Not Like the Other
Pop quiz: Anarchists, socialists, and neo-Nazis represent which terrorist ideological category? Tick tock, tick tock, time’s running out, dear reader. What tenuous thread could possibly link these three groups, which, at first glance, ...
Acquisition
Short fiction by Claudia Ross.
Omerta in France
Two trials expose a long tradition of silence about sexual abuse and pedophilia.
The Queer Other
June 24, 2021
The West likes to fancy itself uniquely tolerant of queer people. Murderous violence against trans people may be on the rise in the United States and hate crimes against LGBT individuals in Germany may have increased 36 percent last year, but, we’re assured, it’s really ...
Belief
Not a main one,but each time I erase itI forget my hands over the objectswhose faithcompels their reappearanceon my knuckles.
You are another kind of belief.It may dominate in the presence of the victim before meor reach out to the executioner in my heart.Each case the ...
How It Feels
June 22, 2021
A mutual aid movement emerges to fight the pandemic in India.
Not Blind
No it isn’t. But lovetook one of my eyes for itself, lovehad vision before birth, diddiscuss with me the accuracyof what transpires in lenses.
And then it went blind—slowlysoaked us up from behind a veil,and we couldn’t see it.
A deaf air said to methat borders ...
The Unwinnable War on Disease
June 21, 2021
Pandemics and the ecology of armed conflict.
Fresh Hell
June 18, 2021
The Supreme Court Says YAASS, Honey, to Homophobia
It’s been a banner week for the nation’s highest court. On Thursday, three opinions issued forth from that marble sarcophagus of justice that, among other things, upheld corporate America’s god-given right to never be ...
Is it Obscene?
On fame, criticism, and disputes about transphobia.
Hand of War
We hold war’s hand,not so that it walks among us,but it is death,a bit tardy, we cajole it.
We hold war’s hand,convinced that this is the last timeit waves catastrophe to us,since the road is a futile wall,
and the country is searchingfor a photographof collective ...