No Such Thing as a Way Out
Krasznahorkai’s Chasing Homer portrays humanity at the end of history
Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.
All Back Pages
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.
The whole point of a skull / is to hit other people with the skull.
Do you remember the thrill
when our roots crossed? How it would kill us?
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.
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.
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!
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...
