Unsolved Mysteries
August 30, 2021
In Passing Time, Michel Butor turns the detective novel inside out.
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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.
Fresh Hell
August 20, 2021
Pity the Parasite
Earlier this month, the Biden administration kicked the eviction crisis further down the road with yet another stopgap moratorium on forcibly unhousing people during the pandemic’s hasty resurgence—and from sea to acidifying sea, landlords are pissed. While ...
Meet the Imperial Feminist
Gertrude Bell was unable to see all women as deserving equal rights
How Empires Fall
August 19, 2021
On the Berlin Wall, the “August Coup,” and the decline of Great Powers
A Small Eternity
Alone, soaring, my balcony a cloud
in the sky’s gentle hold,
I look out on a beach, a paradise
where the green (whispering, roaring)
has said all it has to say.
A green that almost glows with pistachio-colored edges.
A green that suckles, crawls,
grows into bright apricot
and ...
Can You Hear Me Now?
August 16, 2021
A new history of teletherapy highlights the flexibility of the therapeutic frame.
Fresh Hell
August 13, 2021
Extinction Express
This week marked the release of another funereal report about our rapidly accelerating climate crisis from the UN-convened scientific body of the IPCC: having failed to curb emissions enough to prevent the planet from warming to the threshold of 1.5 degrees ...
Mocking the Klan
August 11, 2021
Did cartoonist Billy Ireland really drive out the Columbus, Ohio KKK?
Innocent Despair
When separate from you my blood will ache.An unknown part of me will acheand I’ll try to kill it. Or grab it.The cell that misses you will throb in me,and I won’t be able to spot it,it changes position often,drags out the game,hurts my senses.My eyesight will worsen,my ...