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Fast Country

Carina Imbornone

June 18, 2025

Behind every cul-de-sac an undiagnosed, private pain, duct taped by financial desire.

Slacking Toward Bethlehem

Sammy Loren

June 12, 2025

John Tottenham’s acerbic debut novel Service hums with an anti-sell out ethos.

Another Bullshit Night in Slop City

Will Harrison

June 11, 2025

Everything has become a nutrient-deficient remix.

The Marxists Are Coming

Mathias Fuelling

June 10, 2025

A historian excavates the subterranean legacy of American Marxism.

The Time of Return

Rhian Sasseen

May 19, 2025

Can we escape history, or are we forever at its mercy?

W.A.S.T.E. Not

Madeleine Adams

May 15, 2025

A​​ll civilization is an attempt to make waste disappear.

Heteropessimism of the Intellect

Arielle Isack

April 25, 2025

On Sophie Kemp’s biblical saga of romantic disappointment.

A Place of Wounds

William Giraldi

April 17, 2025

Being an American, Henry James knew, is “a complex fate.”

Fashionable Nonsense

Leif Weatherby

April 14, 2025

The enterprise of behavioral science is rotten to the core.

Schumer’s Warning

David Klion

March 31, 2025

Self-congratulation and willful ignorance in Chuck Schumer’s book on antisemitism.

What’s the Matter with Abundance?

Malcolm Harris

March 18, 2025

Don’t piss in a ditch and call it an ocean of lemonade.

Revenge of the Courtier

Andrew Holter

February 25, 2025

Curzio Malaparte was never an authentic dissident, only a shit-stirrer.