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Short fiction by Justin Taylor.
A Coltrane Surprise
September 23, 2021
A live performance of “A Love Supreme” shines a new light on the classic album.
The State is Dead, Long Live the State
September 22, 2021
In the wake of the pandemic, are we in for a statist revival?
The Singing Left
Music and struggle at the Battle of Blair Mountain centennial.
The Talented Mr. Thiel
September 20, 2021
Inside the mind of Silicon Valley’s philosopher-king.
Fresh Hell
September 17, 2021
Our Shining Future
You might say the general state of things would appear to be undeniably and utterly bleak—some might even venture to say “hopeless”—what with any and all attempts to staunch the resurgence of mass death, hastening climate collapse, expanding wealth ...
The Elizabeth Holmes Line
All that deceptive marketing? Sunny made me do it.
India Walton’s Uphill Battle
September 16, 2021
On the fiscal challenges facing Buffalo’s potential next mayor.
The Spies of Others
September 15, 2021
The West uses the Stasi to tell a flattering story about itself.
Reflection
Yesterday, I handed all my poems to my publisher.I feel like I handed him my headand the words I speak from now onwill come out of his mouth.What a disaster!
Disasters don’t show up one at a time.They arrive in legions like a starving hoard.A poet said this then died.For ...
The Architect’s (Auto)biographer
September 14, 2021
Minoru Yamasaki has never enjoyed particularly great estimation in the annals of architectural history. His long career has become, for many, a caricature or outright failure, the stuffing wedged between the two disasters of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis and the ...