Listen to Your Heart
After the Gaza genocide, Elia Suleiman’s 1996 classic film Chronicle of a Disappearance shows us how life can persist
No Such Thing as a Way Out
Krasznahorkai’s Chasing Homer portrays humanity at the end of history
The Absence of the Future
At the Venice Biennale, architecture has no vision of the future but gadgets, gimmicks, and climate doom
The Soul of Man Under Fascism
Reading Gramsci’s prison letters in an age of catastrophe
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.
Love in the Age of Cronenberg
Only now is the world ready for the queer, kinky idea of love in David Cronenberg's films
Retro Shock
When the world's a cyberpunk dystopia, where does the genre go next?
The Hero as a Drifting Shadow
The latest novel by the mysterious Joseph Andras gathers traces of Ho Chi Minh’s pre-revolutionary youth
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