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It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan
It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan
The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.
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It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan
A Doll’s House | Jamie Hood
A Doll’s House | Jamie Hood
Rachel Ingalls’s fiction stages encounters between unhappy housewives and the uncanny.
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A Doll’s House | Jamie Hood
Amazon’s Quest to Bleed Music Dry
Amazon’s Quest to Bleed Music Dry
Amazon has pillaged the planet in its quest for world domination. Music has not been spared.
pointillist shapes—a medallion, a rocket ship—they concluded, prophetically, with the
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Amazon’s Quest to Bleed Music Dry
Brains on Drugs | John Semley
Brains on Drugs | John Semley
Between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.
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Brains on Drugs | John Semley
Big Play | John Semley
Big Play | John Semley
Fantasy football conjures not the sporting life of the jock, but the mental life of his boss.
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Big Play | John Semley
The Fourth Person | Adam Cavanaugh
The Fourth Person | Adam Cavanaugh
Soon I will die in the course of performing my duties. Perhaps I am dead already.
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The Fourth Person | Adam Cavanaugh
On the Bally | Jessie Kindig
On the Bally | Jessie Kindig
Susan Meiselas’s “Carnival Strippers” disabuse the viewer of any fantasies we might have about sex work.
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On the Bally | Jessie Kindig
The Screw Tapes | Adrian Nathan West
The Screw Tapes | Adrian Nathan West
The music of DJ Screw preserves the personalities and style of people foundational to Houston rap—some long-forgotten and too many deceased.
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The Screw Tapes | Adrian Nathan West
For Heaven’s Sake | Adam Willems
For Heaven’s Sake | Adam Willems
A new history of Christian communism glosses over the tradition’s complications in the interest of a statist conclusion.
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For Heaven’s Sake | Adam Willems
The Sentence is a Lonely Place - Believer Magazine
The Sentence is a Lonely Place - Believer Magazine
I came to language only late and only peculiarly. I grew up in a household where the only books were the telephone book and some coloring books. Magazines, though, were called books, but only one magazine ever came into the house, a now-long-gone photographic general-interest weekly commandingly named Look. Words in this household were not […]
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The Sentence is a Lonely Place - Believer Magazine
Trumpania, U.S.A. | Ed Simon
Trumpania, U.S.A. | Ed Simon
“Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again” has little to actually do with beauty, or culture, or even buildings, and everything to do with power.
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Trumpania, U.S.A. | Ed Simon
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker | Rhett Miller
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker | Rhett Miller
We all knew there was a cutthroat cabal of music industry execs waiting on the top floor of a tower in Rockefeller Center, but we also knew that we were the good guys.
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker | Rhett Miller
No Man Is an Island | John Semley
No Man Is an Island | John Semley
In a film culture stuffed with comic book heroes, a new Jack London adaptation serves as a riposte to the cult of individualism.
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No Man Is an Island | John Semley