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

'You Can Sing an Alternate Reality': An Interview with Sasha Geffen

Talking to the author of Glitter Up the Dark about Savage Garden as entry-point to fandom, missing shitty clubs in the midst of a pandemic, and Britney Spears's communist reblogs.

Perverts Like Us

There was a creative storytelling aspect to sex, and a form of intimacy we didn't share with boys.

'There Are Pernicious Trends and Ideologies That I See Enduring': An Interview with Rachel Vorona Cote

The author of Too Much on who gets to be excessive, whether Victorian protagonists would get along, and the privilege of seeing yourself in literature. 

Leaving the House

Sometimes I think I can identify men who have daughters. 

'A Conversation That Happens Across Space and Time': An Interview with Kawai Strong Washburn

The author of Sharks in the Time of Saviors on mythmaking, magical realism, and the hero complex. 

'Misremembering is Productive': An Interview with Harry Dodge

The author of My Meteorite on interconnectedness, chaos, and a sense of magic.