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
An Even Odyssey
A history of revolt in the East Village
Tompkins Square Park looked like something had happened to it. There was scattered trash and detritus.
Atlas Dabbed
New York, NY | USA
Suspended over this one-to-one-scale map of my doomed metropolis, I saw all at once the extent of the sickness that had fallen on New York.
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.
God is an analogy of which /
I’m not overly fond
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?”
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
