The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part III)
...acceptable? Some Biden officials tried to guess .” From the piece: Biden officials in recent months privately discussed how many daily Covid-19 deaths it would take to declare the virus...
The Paper Chase
...Michael Hudson as his economic advisor, tried to evangelize MMT ideas during a presidential campaign, to no avail. Even when Paul Krugman addresses MMT, which he does, rarely, he oscillates...
The Selfless Man
...Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) by teaching him the art of the pickup, training him to dress fashionably, drink like an alpha male, and make woman-pleasing small talk. “Be better than...
Revolutionary Laughter
...novel almost every decade. He was friends with Albert Camus, Lawrence Durrell and Jean Genet and, although he wrote almost exclusively about Egypt, was firmly ensconced in Left Bank culture,...
Death by Twitter
...the writing of Flaubert, Gide, Camus, Le Clézio and Barthes. In Francophone literature, it crossed the line from low to high culture. But though a version of it was present...
Demolition Party
...economic stimulus of consumer culture to urbanization; these shiny new cities that are going up across the country today are like new refrigerators which are designed to break down after...
A Woman Under the Influence
Mary MacLane's spectacular moods first fueled, then failed her
Escape
...those of us still on the run.” After escape, there is the work of living past the shores of a different world we have tried so hard to find....
The Myth of Liberal Policing
For liberals, police reform is always a question of helping police sustain their legitimacy, despite their illegitimate roots
Editors' Note, Vol. 30: Volume 30
...discontents, reactionary messaging in mass culture, the art and publishing world and their rituals, love as a problem, surveillance and affect, apps and neoliberalism. Essentially: how can we express ourselves,...
Cruise Control
...spaces where men could come together — the ruined factory cities — have been swept up in the name of real-estate values. The privatized remnants of this vibrant sex culture,...
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....
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...
Vol. 71 Editors' Note: Escape
How the hell do I get out of here?
M and A
...an overarching Headless-style endeavor. This one seeks to complete the 18th century work of August Nordenskiöld—an amateur alchemist who tried create gold with the ultimate aim of devaluing it—within today’s...
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....