The Absence of the Future
At the Venice Biennale, architecture has no vision of the future but gadgets, gimmicks, and climate doom
Egypt’s Season of Starlets
In the 1940s and 1950s, all of Egypt was transfixed by the divas of its rising film and radio industries
The Importance of Being Hermes
The occult spiritual practice of Oscar Wilde
Bored Women
The ennui, the humor, the horror, the canon of women's boredom in literature
To Be a Poet, Open Your Eyes
An homage to William Carlos Williams
Indie Squeeze
An elegy for the indie games rennaissance — and prospects for the future
The Ballad of Glanton Dowdell
An excerpt from The Black Utopians
