“One Cannot Redeem the Past”
An Interview with C. Derick Varn
Frances Madeson asks C. Derick Varn about poetry, path dependence, and how to unfuck the world.
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Barry Jenkins’s Cinematic Technique
A formal analysis of If Beale Street Could Talk
The issue resides not in whether techniques are used, but in how deeply they are developed.
Permanent Handstamp
Life at the center of the edge of 90s music
Memories from the life of a music journalist in the era of grunge, riot grrls, and the end of history.
Bloodless Board Games, Covert Colonialisms
On the imperial gaze in tabletop gaming
We ignore the propaganda potential of board games at our peril. At bottom it's a question of agency.
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Author Joseph Grantham Joseph Grantham is the author of two books of poems. His writing has appeared in the Bennington Review, New York Tyrant, Autre Magazine, and elsewhere. View all posts... This content is for Annual Digital, Annual Print & Digital, Annual Supporter, Lifetime Subscription, Monthly Digital, Monthly Print &...
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Robert Evans and Journalism as Activism
Robert Evans became a fixture of not only the Portland antifascist scene but the press corps too, blending the two identities into a new one: an antifascist journalist, who questions the police and the authorities as a starting point, not as an afterthought.
Retro Shock
Cyberpunk within the Cyberpunk Dystopia
It’s probably a cliche to note that cyberpunk marked the point when science fiction finally looked up from its imperialist spaceship fantasies and realized the tech that would actually change the world was the computers running the spaceships.
The Former Essayist
On the Decline of Wesley Yang
What is Wesley Yang’s answer to the question, What happened to Wesley Yang? I realized that this was indispensable to the whole query, even if it wasn’t the solution. I had a Yang-ian feeling that here lay something emblematic about American culture – less in each scene than in the (tragic?) arc of the play.
