The Absence of the Future
At the Venice Biennale, architecture has no vision of the future but gadgets, gimmicks, and climate doom
Bored Women
The ennui, the humor, the horror, the canon of women's boredom in literature
Love in the Age of Cronenberg
Only now is the world ready for the queer, kinky idea of love in David Cronenberg's films
Can Fascism Think?
The deafening silence around Heidegger’s fascism has been broken – what does this mean for philosophy and politics?
Indie Squeeze
An elegy for the indie games rennaissance — and prospects for the future
The Hero as a Drifting Shadow
The latest novel by the mysterious Joseph Andras gathers traces of Ho Chi Minh’s pre-revolutionary youth
Our Neighbor From Hell
"May December" asks hard questions about what a community does with its monsters
Why Racists Lose Wars
History is full of ethnically divided armies. A recent study quantifies their disastrous track record.
A Specter Hangs Over the Hamptons Couch
Inside the Outsider Art fair
Chastening the Past
Indigenous critiques of gender and marriage go further than The Dawn of Everything
