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120 Months
Ed Simon on the past decade
The Age of the Holy Spirit? The Fourth Turning? Apocalypse? Barbarism? Socialism? More

God shat? More

Was Jewish ambivalence about the Reformation born out of a clear-eyed understanding of theological minutia? More

Queen Mob’s Teahouse: 2019

What just happened

Our sister magazine reviews last year. More

Eli S. Evans: Dec. 31st, 2019 – 11:59:59PM

My story

In 2019 I sold my first screenplay experienced the joy of childbirth revealed my true gender identity to my family. More

Los Angeles is total chaos, which gives everyplace that isn’t totally chaotic an oasis sort of feel. More

Susanna Crossman: A Year of Yellow Edges

France tilted, unbalanced

The Gilets Jaune did not march in the centre of the road. They stood, together, around the yellow edge. This circular island was the new agora, a public space where protestors created their own assembly. More

Marcelo Hoffman: The Workers’ Party

On Perry Anderson on Jair Bolsonaro

How did a figure as historically marginal to national political life and as inexperienced in administration as Bolsonaro suddenly end up at the very apex of the political system in Brazil? What are the implications of this enormous and convulsive transformation? More

Douglas Penick: Creating the Past

Travel! Tour! Tourist!

I go online. American Airlines says: Make lifelong memories at unbeatable prices. More

Sylvia Warren: Includo

Isolation has largely stopped the flow

You can buy insects online in bulk, they are delivered in heavily wrapped packages that squirm under the taped edges. One cupboard in my kitchen is filled with these, plump white larvae that crawl over each other in a morass of nudging heads. As a special treat, a visit to a bin outside the fried chicken shop. I do not look like the sort of woman who rifles through refuse for half-eaten burgers and the greasy remnants of polystyrene. More

Alexandra Naughton: Leave the Car

A place a feeling something he said to you

Sometimes you try getting out of the car. Sometimes you are in the car because he wants you to come somewhere with him so he doesn’t have to be alone, and you must come with him even when you don’t want to and even if you have other things to do. He’ll just keep pressuring you until you cave. More

Jessica Sequeira: Exhausted and Luminous

A few more words about Winétt de Rokha

Winétt taught me intensity, the slide from idea to idea that connects images as in dreams, with an overlap of meanings that shifts between registers, staccato and lyric, whisper and scream, in a monologue that loses you but grabs you, that speaks of madness without losing control, that sinks into pain while achieving the sublime, that is capable of militancy but also great sensitivity, speaking of smashed butterflies, horror and yet beauty. More

I’ve been to a meeting of the Failed Novelists Society. More

Genia Blum: Sex Studies

The man puts his thing in your hole

I show my mother the rust-coloured smear in my panties and she gives me an illustrated pamphlet to read: Very Personally Yours. It informs me that I’m a woman now. More

Rosalie Morales Kearns: On Ida O’Keeffe

Still a life

The 1980s were a time when feminist scholars were reclaiming the work of creative women who had fallen into obscurity. Georgia O’Keeffe and her art needed no such rescue. Her life was a triumph, her genius celebrated during her lifetime - still a rare thing for a woman. But it turns out that O’Keeffe had younger sisters who were also talented artists and Georgia was angered by their growing success. She demanded that Ida and Catherine give up painting and stop exhibiting their work. Catherine complied. More

Philippa Snow: On Johan Renck

You’ll still whisper yes

I saw Downloading Nancy for the first time on a sultry night in summer, when the world outside was not yet cold and black. I’ve not stopped thinking about it since. More

Zeny May D. Recidoro: On Éliane Radigue

The ear experiments with uncertainty

Towards the end, the sound of rag-dungs and chanting intensifies. Cacophonous, pulsating reverberations sound, like an earthquake only the quaking was in my bones, before winding down to a middle pitch that gave my pulsing flesh some respite. More

Keith Doubt: On Peter Handke

The injustice of postmodernism

Nobel Prize laureate Handke exemplifies the postmodern understanding of evil. More

M. Munro: On Andrea Long Chu

Everlasting irony in the logical space of reasons

What is the relationship between logic and expectation? More

Queen Mob’s Teahouse: 2010s

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Our sister magazine reviews the past decade. More

George Saintsbury: Beer and Cider

There is no beverage which I have liked to live with more than beer; but I have never had a cellar large enough to accommodate much of it, or an establishment numerous enough to justify the accommodation. More

Judith Butler: Marx’s Body of Work

How best to re-approach, today, Marx’s 1844 Manuscripts in order to take up the question of whether the young Marx is, as is commonly assumed, anthropocentric? More

Jeremy Gilbert: Why Labour Lost

Labour’s loss of seats to the Conservatives in its post-industrial ‘heartlands’ was shocking and traumatic. But it is a myth that the largest bloc of votes that Labour lost was from ‘traditional working class’ voters who switched to the Tories. More



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