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.
All Back Pages
No Such Thing as a Way Out
Krasznahorkai’s Chasing Homer portrays humanity at the end of history
Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.
Why Racists Lose Wars
History is full of ethnically divided armies. A recent study quantifies their disastrous track record.
Trump's military is slashing diversity. Jason Lyall's book proves ethnic chauvinism loses wars and collapses states
The Soul of Man Under Fascism
Reading Gramsci’s prison letters in an age of catastrophe
A new Gramsci emerges from the prison letters: not the immortal theorist, but an all-too-human man at the breaking point.
Dream City
Drifting through the city with Modiano and the Situationists
A sketch of the artists & rebels who taught us to really see our cities.
Listen to Your Heart
After the Gaza genocide, Elia Suleiman’s 1996 classic film Chronicle of a Disappearance shows us how life can persist
Can there be poetry after Gaza? Our reviewer finds answers in Elia Suleiman’s film of everyday life, Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996).
From Issue 3
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...
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?”
