Readings

'I Always Think Everyone's Gay, So...': An Interview with Derek McCormack

Talking with the author of The Well-Dressed Wound about the appeal of evil, the sexual proclivities of cereal mascots, and how much fucking there must have been during the Civil War.

Of Hegemonic Hoverboards and the Power of Power-Laces: Living in Back to the Future II's 2015

This month, time catches up to Marty McFly. But instead of worrying about the projections in the film that have come true, we complain about the electronic devices we can't buy.

Elliott Smith is Sad, Like You

The singer, who died on October 21, 2003, always maintained that he loved making his music, even as his music usually claimed that he didn't love much at all.

Book Eight: Harry Mathews's Cigarettes

Who gets to keep the record that everyone is so bored making?

‘You Need to Start Getting Nervous’: An Interview with Margaret Atwood

Margaret visits the Hazlitt Studio to talk about The Heart Goes Last, the prison industrial complex, and the market for furniture you could fuck.

A Primer of Darkness

Butoh dancer Moe Yamamoto's notebook is a document of sustained transition. 

We'll Walk

On my brother, Wheels, and living with disabilities. 

The Myths That Keep on Giving

Passed down through generations, fables provide rich material for everything from novels such as Patrick deWitt's Undermajordomo Minor, to Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Twilight Zone. 

First Responders at the End of the World

A nuclear device explodes in a Midwestern city. A hurricane ravages a susceptible coast. What happens next? Inside Vibrant Response, the U.S. Department of Defense's worst-case scenario drill.