Bored Women

The ennui, the humor, the horror, the canon of women's boredom in literature

Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

Notes on Labor Notes

Between compromise and radicalism, on the job and at the Labor Notes conference

An Historiography of Anarchism

Global anarchist history reveals the fundamental unity of the tradition, along with its key lines of debate and disagreement

Retro Shock

When the world's a cyberpunk dystopia, where does the genre go next?

In the Domain of the Unknown

From death mask to CPR manikin, L'Inconnue de la Seine is a mythic symbol of our attempts to grapple with death - or reverse it.

Geopolitics of the Sahel

Recent coups in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have produced the Alliance of Sahelian States (AES). Why is it aligning with Russia?

Atlas Dabbed

New York, NY | USA

Suspended over this one-to-one-scale map of my doomed metropolis, I saw all at once the extent of the sickness that had fallen on New York.

Faultlines 

Johannesburg | South Africa

Dineo’s last image of the German was of him, wide-eyed and shouting, pulling the door of the van closed on a whole group of people.

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