Bipartisanship Has Sailed
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March 10, 2021
A charming depressive with David Lynch hair and shirt collars unbuttoned to the nipple, Jackie “Jacques” Derrida was named after the child star of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Kid by middle-class Jewish parents in El Biar, a suburb of Algiers, in 1930. Thirty-seven ...
Cruel and Usual Punishment
March 09, 2021
Inhumane prison conditions run deeper than the pandemic.
Fresh Hell
March 05, 2021
Working From Home, For Kids!
Plague Fatigue
What has changed during the pandemic, other than our fears?
Wander Woman
March 04, 2021
On Nomadland and the cinema of peripatetic women.
Dancing on a Volcano
March 04, 2021
Two films from 1938 tackle the French Revolution
The Talking Cure
March 03, 2021
On Christine Smallwood’s novel of neuroses.
Con Men in Tights
March 02, 2021
On Robinhood’s misguided mission to “democratize finance.”
Stepping Twice in the Same River
March 01, 2021
A translated excerpt from Juan José Saer's “El río sin orillas.”
Fresh Hell
February 26, 2021
A significant opportunity to make a boatload of cash.
The Exorcist’s Apprentice
A new short story by Benjamin Cosman.