His Own Prophet
August 04, 2021
Adonis’s Misguided Polemic Against Islam.
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Find Your Soul
August 03, 2021
The language of American cultishness.
Fresh Hell
July 30, 2021
One-Way Ticket to Thirst Town
Governing Bodies
Why are women athletes required to show so much skin?
Nuding Out
July 29, 2021
In 1926, a crusade swept across Europe. In Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and even stodgy England, some three million Europeans had reportedly dropped their drawers and flocked to a “nudity cult,” leading Popular Science Monthly to ask of its American readers: “Do We Wear ...
House of Connection
When the warden throws a party in the county jail.
Fresh Hell
July 23, 2021
Medaling in Folly
The year is 2021 and the 2020 Olympics are now officially, heedlessly, dismally underway in Tokyo, having kicked off on Friday with the “Parade of Nations” in a stadium that the city of Tokyo, currently under a state of emergency due to the ongoing ...
Mother
Short fiction by Brian Evenson.
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 ...