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.
All Back Pages
A Political History of the NFL Jersey
The evolution of the professional football jersey tracks that of racial capitalism, technology, and empire
In its design and symbolism as much as its materials and production, the NFL jersey is an artifact of an industrial society shaped by racism and capitalism.
Seeing and Believing
Finding faith at Ark Encounter
Nothing can prepare you for your first glimpse of the Ark.
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?”
Bloodless Board Games, Covert Colonialisms
On the imperial gaze in tabletop gaming
We ignore the propaganda potential of board games at our peril. At bottom it's a question of agency.
A suicidal crow (or is it a seagull?) — the most salacious therapy circle — leaving the dinner date — meeting Petra. In short: four stories.
From Issue 3
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!
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
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...
