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Charity Believeth All Things

A. S. Hamrah

February 03, 2020

Last month, Semiotext(e) reissued Gary Indiana’s Depraved Indifference, originally published in 2001. Here is A.S. Hamrah’s introduction to the novel. We live in a time of exceptional, unprecedented grift, so much so that our era is turning the history of the United ...

Class Carpetbagger

Corey Pein

February 03, 2020

Pete Buttigieg’s comedy of class-signaling errors is a great sign for the socialist movement.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 31, 2020

War Crimes: The Video Game 

Haunted by Cybersects

Kate Wagner

January 30, 2020

Kate Takes

A freaky tour of the extant websites of 1990s cults.

Heaven Help Us

Megan Marz

January 29, 2020

Literature and the doctrine of self-improvement

Speed Freaks

Evan Malmgren

January 28, 2020

A gaming community goes corporate

The Long Arm of the Law

Lyle Jeremy Rubin

January 27, 2020

The dangerous rise of the global “good cop.”

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 24, 2020

Honey, I Indoctrinated The Kids

Mad Dogs and Medical Bills

Ann Neumann

January 24, 2020

Drug Money

The high price of taming the world's most deadly disease

Barons of Crap

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

January 22, 2020

On the disruptors who didn’t change anything.

The Poet of Infinite Longing

Dustin Illingworth

January 21, 2020

Desire and shame in the fiction of Garth Greenwell.

The Sad Clowns of Dating

Marlowe Granados

January 20, 2020

Designs for Living

In DESIGNS FOR LIVING, columnist Marlowe Granados dispenses sound advice in a noisy world. Send your rants and pleas to [email protected] for Marlowe’s consideration.   Sweet, sweet, agony Aunt Marlowe: I exited a long-term relationship and have missed the cultural ...