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The Architect’s (Auto)biographer
September 14, 2021
Minoru Yamasaki has never enjoyed particularly great estimation in the annals of architectural history. His long career has become, for many, a caricature or outright failure, the stuffing wedged between the two disasters of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis and the ...

Fresh Hell
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 ...

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, ...

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 ...