Against Redemption

Social media is filled with documentation of human suffering. So why read a tragic novel?

Bathed in an Arc of Fresh Light

What else is it we would want from love, apart from love?

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Against Redemption

Social media is filled with documentation of human suffering. So why read a tragic novel?

Bathed in an Arc of Fresh Light

What else is it we would want from love, apart from love?

The Agitator

The activist-academic Silvia Federici has never muted her message to get ahead. What’s the cost of refusing to sell out?

Tailpipe Katabasis

Oil Stories and/as Underworlds

The Year in a Travel Visa

There was something about the country where I was born that had always eluded me.

'Every Manner of Horror is Just a Google Search Away'

Novelists Dashiel Carrera and Michael Seidlinger on security and surveillance.

The Year in Medieval Erotics

It seems this year’s offerings from the Dark Ages want to raise a carnal, earthy prayer to the present age. 

The Best Worst Year

On pregnancy and grief during pandemic lockdown.

The Year in Empathy

People arrive at the ER every day looking for my help, and the uncomfortable truth is that I’m often so overwhelmed that I struggle to connect with them.

Not Even Seventeen

On two movies about teenagers.