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

‘We Should Be Articulating Joyful Alternatives’: An Interview with Nona Willis Aronowitz

The author of Bad Sex on the body horror of pregnancy, selling books about sex, and why this might be her last word on her mother’s body of work.

‘Gestures Across Time’: An Interview with Martha Schabas

The author of My Face in the Light on artistic process, phsyical mediums as a foil to writing, and the tension between surface and interior. 

‘It’s My Love Letter to Superheroes’: An Interview with Villal Pando

The Montréal cartoonist on his debut book The Pursuer, the evolution and influence of comic books, and how a lifelong passion for drawing became a career.

‘Underachieving Can Be an Act of Profound Self-Care’: An Interview with Rachel Yoder

The author of Nightbitch on anger, needy toddlers, and writing as emotional exorcism.

'It Was Just Joy': An Interview with Nicole Pasulka

The author of How You Get Famous on Brooklyn drag, RuPaul, and genderfuck. 

That Arrested Moment: On Stills in Film

I’ve always believed that a carefully chosen frame makes for the more appropriate film poster.