Rootless and Ruthless
...and dreaming of a future where we could be proud of ourselves. We tried terribly hard to save each other, in the way that young people do, sharing out whatever...
Socializing the Dark Web
...a platform for exchanging ideas, debating point of views, and help expand people’s knowledge and understanding of other cultures. How did Galaxy2 come to be? I created Galaxy2 out of...
Desecration Hardware, 4 (1920s Odeon Glass Fringe Chandelier)
...got hotter and we rotted and the light of afternoon tried hard to make it through the fibrous leaves and plunging gobs but succeeded only in being a green dusk...
Consider the Humblebrag
...idol hearthrob. Tried not to talk too much or eat too much. Succeeded at neither!” Particularly popular are the 15-minutes-of-fame variety, like @ReallyVirtual’s “Uh oh, now I’m the guy who...
What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?
...Koroma’s cause. As these kinds of mistakes plague their presidencies, these leaders have tried to assert symbolic control of the situation and thereby preserve the system they have made and...
Editors' Note, Vol. 36: Stars
...you navigate only by your libido. Or if you feel you’ve tried everything here, move to another planet entirely: In “No Spin Zone,” Erik Petigura discusses the recent boom of...
Geographer's Revenge
...unsolvable, being ultimately manifestations of the analyst’s pessimism or optimism. And in a complex world, pessimists and optimists can always find evidence. Contemporary geographers, however, have tried to move past...
Edith Wharton and Yo Momma
...that I tried to circumvent in the piece was that female writers will forever be judged on the way we look, something my own experience has backed up when I've...
Cosmopolitican, or Cosmetics as Police Regime
...for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice tried to force a woman out of the mall after they spotted her wearing nail polish. The difference between this...
Portrait of an Iranian Witch
...my field notebook, setting it aflame inside the bathroom of her suite. She said she had not tried anything new, but she had teased the ex-beau about the possibility: A...
A Bridge to Somewhere
...people in an unventilated metal box for hours get really hot, and a few started to get faint. We shifted them to the cooler floor, and tried to conserve water....
Vol. 71 Editors' Note: Escape
How the hell do I get out of here?
Love Homoscopes
...ableism, all those jerks together at that intersection of extraction have always tried to relegate and regulate the practitioners of the occult because it is a very powerful social space....
The Hair Back There
...hard you tried, nothing could de-kink a person’s kitchen.” The kitchen meant resistance. The kitchen saw the options available to make it "tame," and it refused them. It would be...
Gamifying Beauty
...few errant sounds—but it couldn’t compare to the afternoon I spent teaching myself to play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on ukelele.) Enter beauty apps, which mimic acts that fall somewhere...
Best American Poetry Pseudonyms
...tried very hard to do; at best, your omissions and failures might not be glaring. But that’s it, that’s the best case scenario, to fail not so badly. There’s no...