Comey As You Are

James Comey’s will to power has nowhere to flourish but in his mind.

Fear and Loathing on Melrose Place

In Jack Skelley’s LA, everything—even basic reality—is warped or subject to question.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1952–2023 

Art is long, life is short.

Errant Telenovelas

Telenovelas are the Mexican arbiters of life and death.

Brains on Drugs

How consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.

Archival Frictions

Painting a fuller picture of lesbian experience.

Thinking Like a Mountain

On Tom Comitta’s ecological fiction.

The Ghost at the Feast

On Susan Taubes, Jacob Taubes, and the limits of literary biography.

Red Scared

We went to the Victims of Communism Museum so you don’t have to.

Morbid Symptoms

On the monstrous archetypes of British political critique.

Riding the Goddamn Elephant

You're all going to hell.

Little Boy Lost

Can Australia’s tradition of lost child stories be rewritten?

The Queer Art of Cruelty

The defiant drag of Doris Fish.

Let the Sunshine In

The tyranny of whiteness in interior design.

Beauty and el Bloqueo ­­­­­­

In search of the Black Venus.

Big Play

Fantasy football has become more than just big business.

In Rocinante’s Stirrups

Rereading the diaries of Che Guevara.

A Good Death

Instruction manuals for living written by the dying.

Fisting at the End of the World

On the trailblazing pornographer Fred Halsted.

Donkey Work

What does the pained animal signify?