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A new short story by Jordan Moffatt.
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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.
Fresh Hell
August 27, 2021
Blair Bitch Project
As the United States’ bungled withdrawal from its bungled twenty-year, multi-trillion-dollar exercise in “nation-building” nears its inevitably violent conclusion, many of the politicians who so gleefully rallied to the cause back in the day have what ...
The Global Garage
August 24, 2021
Militarized frontiers get a tech-savvy makeover.
Singing in Dark Times
August 23, 2021
Michael Robbins, between hope and despair.