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!
All Back Pages
There had been for as long as anyone could remember a short pile of mud...
Nationalists and Ethnic Minorities in Poland
What happens when great powers redraw the map?
Poland's far-right government passes new restrictions on the German minority—the latest moment of a long, traumatic history.
Faultlines
Johannesburg | South Africa
Dineo’s last image of the German was of him, wide-eyed and shouting, pulling the door of the van closed on a whole group of people.
Earth Ring
San Francisco, CA | USA
Since Jon stopped answering his door I’m digging to his house. I...
God is an analogy of which /
I’m not overly fond
From Issue 3
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
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...
