Usurer Illusion
A review of Maurizio Lazzarato's The Making of Indebted Man: Essay on the Neoliberal Condition.
Excuses, Excuses
At what point do we recognize an enemy as not merely adversarial, but existential?
Climate Changed
A warmed globe needs new writers to guide us through it
To the Squirrels
In "his" new novel, Glenn Beck tell us one we've heard before
Exorcisms in Style
When we talk about style in writing we're talking about branding
Geographer's Revenge
In casting about for an explanation of what went wrong in Iraq, Robert Kaplan has stumbled into the shallows of geopolitics.
Hangar to Grave
As Boeing's Dreamliner plane of the future sits grounded, it receives a vision of aircraft past, present, and future. But will it learn its lessons in time?
Humid, All Too Humid
On the meteorology of morals
The First Man
Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes's final novel is a covertly optimistic satire of modern Mexico.
World of Weathercraft
Government weather management falls somewhere between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact. But even if we could control the weather, would we control ourselves?
An Attempt at Exhausting a Movement
Excerpts from The End of Oulipo? An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement.
Masters of Suspicion
A review of Bruno Bosteel’s Marx and Freud in Latin America
The Roads Not Taken
By remaking the novel, On The Road makes Kerouac's mistakes over again
Après Nous, le Déluge
From our stories, you’d think we were ending the world
Private Life Drama
Soviet writer Andrei Platonov’s Happy Moscow finds the shortcomings of socialism not in its crushing the individual spirit but timidly preserving it.
Not for Prophet
Who’s mad about The Weather Channel’s original programming?