Vol. 73 Editors’ Note: Lies
What will be the story of how we made another world?
LIES
...social media are all over fake news and deep fakes. In a culture obsessed with performing veracity, lies are a kind of politics. May our fake visions be as seditious...
Ms. America
...most endearing. Lana Del Rey reacquaints with the danger and intrigue that pop culture once promised our borders held. Borders of class, race, gender, geography—their drama instead of their unromantic...
Morpheus Descending
...may know, / Let our serious may know." -- Leigh Hunt, "Songs and Chorus of the Flowers: Poppies" (1836) The city was synonymous with quack medicine, and rightly so. Opium...
One-Dimensional Woman
...in that if I made up songs and asked her if she’d heard them on the radio she would say yes, and try to sing along with me. If you’re...
On Quitting
Most often when I talk about building a life, I have meant something closer to saying that I cannot imagine—or desire—a life here.
The Scent(s) of a Woman
...evanescent as a smell have a history and a culture?”) and (2) its current status as “girl stuff.” Comparatively, the study of wine—which shares a focus on smell and descriptive...
City of Praise
...leaks fluorescent light and you can hear male and female voices singing worship songs. It is as if their praise powers the building. London is ever changing; that’s what cities...
A Contribution to the Critique of John Mayer
...and quelling, that series of cuts between which slosh their echoes, their marrow, our froth or songs. With him still out there somewhere, it's almost like what we see when...
Core Values
...the trees accompanied by bawdy songs that they sang at the top of their voices. This they believed would summon forth fruit in overwhelming abundance. Chapman's unorthodox ways belied a...
Sunday Reading
...Reeling in the Raj Jacqui Shine: Orchard Beach photos "You were a child once, too." Let's Stop Singing Songs About Women Who Don't Know They're Beautiful Wikipedia list of pastries...
Twilight of the Cruise
...Bob Dylan wrote songs about and Patti Smith hung out with. His existential ideal is the titular “cruise”, a philosophy of everyday life defined by constant movement and phenomenological creativity....
Sunday Reading
...by YT. Further context from the NYT: Rutgers Officials Long Knew of Coach's Actions And John Amaechi on sports' bully culture From the Let's Talk About Names series (disclaimer: edited...
The Sisterhood, If It Ever Existed and It Probably Didn't, Shattered While I Wasn't Looking and All I Got Was This Dumb Safety Pin
...“considered myself” is meaningless. I have done jack shit to actually show up for people of color. I read the thinkpieces and make my Twitter feed diverse and try to...
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?
Sunday Reading
...* Don’t Feed the Psychotic Narcissists * DeAndre McCullough (1977-2012) * The Mystery of Charles Dickens * Gore Vidal's Detective Novels * Justin Bieber initials on all my winter clothes...