Bored Women
The ennui, the humor, the horror, the canon of women's boredom in literature
Our critic explores the disinterest and detachment that surfaces in some of her favorite books by women.
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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.
A Pandemic Archive
Max Alvarez’s interviews record working-class perspectives on the age of COVID
How will historians reconstruct our time: as a view from above, or from below?
Do you remember the thrill
when our roots crossed? How it would kill us?
Barry Jenkins’s Cinematic Technique
A formal analysis of If Beale Street Could Talk
The issue resides not in whether techniques are used, but in how deeply they are developed.
Love as a Verb
An anarchist reads bell hooks
Far from being a capitulation to liberal sentimentalism, a politics rooted in love may in fact be a revolutionary weapon as powerful as any bomb or barricade.
From Issue 3
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.
A drowned Victorian teen, her medical manikin doppelganger, and their enduring entanglement with the question: “Can death be undone?”
Great minds are not like ordinary people; theydo not wash socks or remember birthdays.They see clear through one aspect of the world, socks and all. The aspect furls and stretches like a catbaked in sunlight. Or molten glasspulled like hot caramel in cool stone hands. I have known three Great...
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
