Judging Books by Their Covers
...a bit exaggerated, though coming in so many octave ranges they are hard to ignore. It might be more useful to say print is changing and in our attention economy,...
The Withdrawal Method
...the matter?” Distaste for the work of coupledom makes a bit of shop discipline necessary. Kipnis observes that “the well-publicized desperation of single life — early death for men; statistical...
Ars longa, vita brevis
...She has written her books, and they remain. The reporter who doxed her attempted to justify himself with this bit of weaseling: “[B]y announcing that she would lie on occasion,...
Glossary
...his pants, and flames licking up his back. He put down the pharmacists, chugged a bottle of pills, yelled “To the commune, dick-licks!”, and bit a sizable chunk of flesh...
Pop at the End
This is what the end of the world sounds like
Editors' Note, Vol. 34: California
...such real-estate bait-and-switches. People elsewhere are heavily invested in how the state appears, its lucrative fantasy coming to dominate and determine conditions on the ground. But the best real estate...
A Very Long Winter
...actually turned out to be fascists. This was all a bit too complicated for them, so they turned away from the Ukrainian situation all together. Yet the West was not...
Nice to Meat You
...and for a brief, uncanny moment, they were honest about it. I am not the first commentator to be drawn almost involuntarily into the territory of creepiness. Most notably,...
Uncertain augury
...bit, but feebly. The hawk sat still, looked down at the gathering crowd, who were all saying, hawk, or eagle, and all taking pictures. The hawk went back to tearing...
Lucky Number Seven
...external circumstances can more drastically affect the lives of working-class individuals. At age seven, Sue, Lynn, and Jackie giggle, squirm, and fall all over each other. They lack the composure...
The Impermanence of Beauty Work
...It’s not quite flow, because I think of that as being more about being engaged in the activity itself. While I might be thinking a little bit about, say, whether...
Death Immortalized
...galactic scale -- we ought to be able to detect. The idea of the Fermi Paradox, in brief, is that if our ideas about how common life is in the...
City Under Siege
...Cities Under Siege with a chapter about “countergeographies” that might be created to overturn this new military urbanism. The discussion comes a bit late in the game—on the order of...
Reparative compulsions
...effect: The activity distills these aspects of life into their elementary forms (namely, risk-based interaction, actuarial economic thinking, and compressed, elastic time) and applies them to a course of action...
A Detrimental Education
Zaina Alsous talks with Eli Meyerhoff about his book Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World.
Family Planning
...of Planned Parenthood, in a 1922 pamphlet entitled “The Woman Rebel.” It has stayed with us as a popular bit of anti-abortionist propaganda, illuminating the supposedly depraved underpinnings of family...