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 Rebelliousness of the Body': An Interview with Rufi Thorpe

The author of The Knockout Queen on craftsmanship, sexuality, and strength. 

What Were Sports?

A perfect engine of meaningless data creation; an otherworldly space-place where people could depressurize and sometimes succumb to madness; good even when they were bad.

Get Fat, Don't Die

Beowulf Thorne's cooking column for people with AIDS claimed the right to pleasure, but in each recipe was embedded an urgent appeal.

Where Are You From?

Race-based data has been collected in North America as far back as 1790. But what happens if you don't fit the categories society is trying to nudge you into?

'A Trace of That Darker History': An Interview with Amina Cain

The author of Indelicacy on elitism, inspiration, and cleaning. 

ADMN

Fate gives the enigmatic-yet-still-relatable protagonist the good partnering fortune she deserves.