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?
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I Did Not Enjoy the Poem
Brooklyn, NY | USA
I could literally be doing anything else.
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 Former Essayist
On the decline of Wesley Yang
Whatever happened to Wesley Yang?
Love in the Age of Cronenberg
Only now is the world ready for the queer, kinky idea of love in David Cronenberg's films
Cronenberg has long been the king of body horror. But is his odd vision of the "new flesh" really a prophecy of queer, sexually liberated Zoomers?
Figure and Frame
Safi Faye's films invert the ethnologer's gaze on rural life in Senegal
By placing ordinary people at the center of her work, Safi Faye revolutionized Senegal's cinema.
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.
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...
