Sweet VR of California
Sweet Valley is a digital utopia where bodiless souls can explore psychedelic understandings through a networked VR high-school cult
Empire Records
...while Muslim must have been dots crying out to be connected. In order to do so, it tried to turn Ould Slahi’s itinerant nature against him, by targeting him at...
A Week Late and A Story Short: "Whispering Trees"
...and asked to discuss oral literature. We didn't. After a few false starts, the discussion finally found itself contemplating the literary and aesthetic values of rap music and slam poetry....
Pfizer Walk With Me
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft
Stars
...feel you’ve tried everything here, move to another planet entirely: In “No Spin Zone,” Erik Petigura discusses the recent boom of exoplanet discoveries. Show More Virgo: It is an understudied...
One If by Land, Two If by Sea
...high-profile border operation in San Diego like the one that had just been tried in El Paso (Operation Blockade, later Hold the Line). The implementation of Operation Gatekeeper in San...
Needles and the Damage Done
...went off to college, I tried to erase all trace of my small-town upbringing. I thought about Needles as little as possible, and only went back for brief visits at...
The world has been created a few minutes ago
...bridge. we tried on some panties. she’s reading lunar park. i told her it was a big mistake. the beginning is fine but then he starts to see ghosts everywhere....
Reading the U.S. Torture Footnotes
...in . . . He got out of the car, came to where I was and tried to rape me.—We Charge Genocide, UN Shadow Report * For the distinction between...
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 3
...they always? They had a good laugh, a real hearty one. My own chest bloomed, in huge black stellar flowers and all their usual barbs, and I tried to swallow...
Junk Drawer
...The results themselves are only temporary—they would look different every time—capturing the ebb and flow of our pop culture obsessions. In many ways Odell is just as much an anthropologist...
Mommie Dearest
Adoption stories usually begin with the conceit of orphans, when oftentimes the mothers are still alive.
The Jimmy McNulty Gambit: Mike Daisey and the Thickening Crust of Our Awareness
...fails, of course, but that’s not the important thing; the important thing is why he even tried. After all, Jimmy McNulty’s problem is not only that he’s an unscrupulous narcissist,...
Circle Circle Dot Dot
...hell? I thought to myself. I tried to laugh it off and went over to another kid. And before I could extend my hand, the same girl interjected— “Don’t touch...
Interview: Sister Nancy Ruth, Life-Professed Member of the Order of St. Andrew, Hudson Valley, New York
...to be who I am. I’m not sure if I’ve ever consciously tried to feel sexy. I’ve experimented a little bit more now that I’ve lost some weight; I’ve experimented...
This Week in Art Crime
...the man put up quite a fight, injuring two officers while they tried to arrest him, with Detective Inspector Brendon Cullen saying one officer suffered a shoulder injury. (via) •...