God is an analogy of which /
I’m not overly fond
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The Hero as a Drifting Shadow
The latest novel by the mysterious Joseph Andras gathers traces of Ho Chi Minh’s pre-revolutionary youth
Joseph Andras, a working-class neo-modernist novelist, shows us why embalming our revolutionary heroes is a mistake.
Love as a Verb
An anarchist reads bell hooks
Far from being a capitulation to liberal sentimentalism, a politics rooted in love may in fact be a revolutionary weapon as powerful as any bomb or barricade.
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!
The Ballad of Glanton Dowdell
An excerpt from The Black Utopians
Glanton Dowdell, painter of Detroit's Black Madonna, took a picaresque journey through the American 1930s.
Great minds are not like ordinary people; theydo not wash socks or...
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?”
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
