Retro Shock
When the world's a cyberpunk dystopia, where does the genre go next?
80s cyberpunk predicted the future. But today, can it escape its own past?
All Back Pages
Well That Doesn’t Sound Like Fun
On boredom, board games, and Debord
It’s long past time to stop treating games as a narrative medium. What is important in a game is not what it says but what it does.
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
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.
I Did Not Enjoy the Poem
Brooklyn, NY | USA
I could literally be doing anything else.
God is an analogy of which /
I’m not overly fond
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...
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!
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?”
