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Don’t Let People Enjoy Things
May 09, 2019
The simultaneous release of the final season of Game of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame has wrought upon this earth the swarm of a particular breed of internet person, one who responds to critics of any corporate franchise or brand with this insipid image: Let me be clear: this ...

Nothing to Do with Art
January 17, 2019
Gary Indiana's Vile Days revisits his Village Voice art column from the 1980s, which found him skewering the art world's grotesque superficiality.

The Year of Our Baffler 2018
December 28, 2018
2018 proved once and for all that cruelty and stupidity make energetic bedfellows. It was the year of children in cages and “a very stable genius,” of Paul Manafort’s leathers and attempts to legislate trans people out of existence. The measured, expert testimony of Dr. ...

No Mothers, No Daughters
March 27, 2018
Taken from the introduction to How to Suppress Women’s Writing, by Joanna Russ, forthcoming from University of Texas Press. I have a vision. The streets of midtown Manhattan are filled with all of the professors, professional critics, editors, and judges of award panels. They ...