The Difference between Chéri and Eternity
...an account book, naked near the fountain, naked in Lea’s brass-laden bed. Chéri is naked wearing Lea’s pearl choker: “It looks every bit as good on me as it does...
Novel History
The imagined “lost confessions” of an infamous 18th century English thief fucks with the demand on trans people to produce themselves as case histories, in order to illuminate something new about the present
No Choice but Freedom
...Communism, what they are saying is that markets more effectively produced discipline. It was more successful at imposing patterns of human action and restriction conducive to military and economic production...
Making Again, Making Against
...couldn’t be worth more than two sous—as it is only a bit of gold painted on glass—he happily paid five francs for it. Why, we might wonder, would he give...
The Man Who Saved Prospect Park
...of a man so highly regarded that, like a saint, his passing inspired mythologizing Most of what we know about Gibson comes from John Coleman Adams's 1901 biography William Hamilton...
A Heaven of Hell
...York scene -- patrons and stars of CBGBs between the late Sixties and mid-Eighties, to vastly oversimplify a category -- have come out with their own literature, and enough has...
The World According to Modern Monetary Theory
...of genuine scarcity? What feels like inflation may actually be wage deflation combined with artificial scarcity imposed by monopolists, speculators, and rent seekers. The effects of those ills will not...
School's Out Forever
...need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces, the competition for the best teachers should be fierce, they should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government...
This Week In Art Crime
...• • • To fight rent prices and bring a bit of whimsy to the morning commute, an unknown New Yorker set up a cardboard living room on the N...
“I’m Going to be Buried in a Scarf”
An interview with recently deceased anarchist journalist Paul Z. Simons about the Rojava revolution in Syria. The accompanying photos are captioned with his comments.
(NOT) Five African novels to read before you die
...to the Ancestors (2002,2008/2010) Léonora Miano’s Dark Heart of the Night (2005/2010) Edem Awumey’s Dirty Feet (2009/2011) Kossi Efoui’s The Shadow of Things to Come (2011/2013) Scholastique Mukasonga’s Our Lady...
I’m So Into Avoiding You
An email exchange between Grace Lavery and Charlie Markbreiter
A guillotinable mass of lame
...station, I heard an actually beautiful act: coming off a carefully non-exciting exhaltation to take Him into your heart, they played U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."...
Sunday Reading
...that teaches us quite a bit about organizing academic workplaces, organizing democratically, women in the labor movement, and organizing for respect, not just wages. Chris Hayes on undecided voters in...
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
The Sonic Episteme
To use sound as a tool for theorizing and realizing a more just world, we can’t merely reform Western modernity; we must do something else entirely