Our Neighbor From Hell
"May December" asks hard questions about what a community does with its monsters
Our critic watches a new indie drama about the long shadow cast by an act of child abuse.
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▫Shudder and quake,▫▫Prophetic▫▫Young Writer!▫
The whirlwind is sown.
But the sowers are dead.
And it is ours to reap.
Buy Boltcutters!
Robert Evans and journalism as activism
Robert Evans has become a fixture of not only the Portland antifascist scene but the press corps too.
A Specter Hangs Over the Hamptons Couch
Inside the Outsider Art fair
On perusing the obscene spectacle of the Outsider Art Fair, a communist declares: abolish the art market!
The Importance of Being Hermes
The occult spiritual practice of Oscar Wilde
Surely we all know Oscar Wilde. Aesthete, dilettante, artist, flaneur...and occult practitioner? The untold, esoteric story.
From Issue 3
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...
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?”
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
