A Vessel Among Vessels: For Laura Aguilar
Memories of a dyke bar in East LA conjure and are conjured by the work of Laura Aguilar
No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
Laughing at America
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling
The Malignant Melancholy
There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.
One or Many Directions
What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?
Immortal Techniques
23andMe makes the human body immortal at last
Carceral Capitalism
Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.
Groupthinkers
A review of Divining Desire (OR Books) by Liza Featherstone
Will the Real Amelia Peabody Please Stand Up?
By Kathleen Sheppard
Where State Politics Meets Gender Politics: Chien-Shiung Wu and the Manhattan Project
By Kanta Dihal
What Was the Child?
Childhood as we currently understand it emerged with 20th century capitalism, but as the distinction between labor and leisure is breaking down, so too is the concept of childhood
Paradise Lost
The Florida Project and the New Proletarian Cinema of 2017 tell of the persistence and loss of dreams
Fan Nonfiction
Heroic tales about video-game production mask how the hobby holds both its audience and performers captive
Born Under the Tobacco Flower, and Raised Under the Lis
Dreams of a separatist Quebec nation are founded on conservative, racist attachments to bloodline that leftist adherents cannot so quickly disavow
Save the World
How Star Wars films thematize their own irrelevance