Permanent Handstamp
Life at the center of the edge of 90s music
Memories from the life of a music journalist in the era of grunge, riot grrls, and the end of history.
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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?
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.
Steamroomography
An annotated guide to gay cruising in New York City steam rooms
Men have had sex with each other in public spaces since time immemorial. This sensual essay explores how they've done so in New York, from personal experience.
A Division of Labor
A science fiction TV drama explores questions of slavery and self in the workplace
In "Severance," work-life balance is given a dystopian spin through tech-induced split personalities.
“One Cannot Redeem the Past”
An Interview with C. Derick Varn
Frances Madeson asks C. Derick Varn about poetry, path dependence, and how to unfuck the world.
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.
