The whole point of a skull / is to hit other people with the skull.
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A Pandemic Archive
Max Alvarez’s interviews record working-class perspectives on the age of COVID
How will historians reconstruct our time: as a view from above, or from below?
There had been for as long as anyone could remember a short pile of mud...
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.
Seeing and Believing
Finding faith at Ark Encounter
Nothing can prepare you for your first glimpse of the Ark.
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!
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?”
