Last Week in End Times Cinema – A. S. Hamrah
Read through a “full year of wrong thinking, bad decisions, and man-made disasters” and you will get some sense of just how dim Hollywood’s lights and luminaries are.
Boring Starvation: On Finding the Eating Disorder Book I Needed
For a while . . . I thought that no one should write about eating disorders at all because there was no way to do so without somehow glamorizing them.
It would be tempting, if you were a theoretical physicist working on the first atomic bomb, to imagine yourself as a demiurge. To frame the process as spiritual longing for God’s wrath . . .
Love in a F*cked-Up World – Dean Spade
“To me,” writes Spade, “LOVE is a clear extension of the questions at the heart of my previous work: How do we build lasting and effective resistance movements? What are the barriers, and how do we overcome them?”
Except for Breath – Lucienne Bestall
When it comes to talk of war––the city destroyed, the city inflamed––Bestall is attracted to Beirutians’ cool detachment, their resilience that shies away from heroism, their elegant remove, which characterizes so much of her writing.
Horror of Life: The Suicide Letters of Charles Baudelaire
From his early twenties till the day he died, Baudelaire felt himself to be bound in chains: he wriggled, spat venom, apologized halfheartedly, then did it all over again. This absurd cycle comes across so energetically, so convulsively, so predictably, that reading the letters sometimes feels like a spectator sport.
Ranging in scale from tiny projects by one-man development teams to titles with million-dollar production budgets, video games seem much more eager than the literary establishment to borrow and learn from other forms.
Freedom Sounds and Care Practices in Anti-Extractivist Mapping
Over the course of a year, Maizal collected sound recordings of the wildlife and waterflow of the Andean moorlands under threat from mining, as well as interviews with veterans of anti-mining activism from the pueblo Nangali. The result is an imaginative archive and ambitious cartographic experiment . . .
Vagabondage, thrill-seeking, and risk underwrite the best of these poems—and knowledge of Rees’s adventures only makes the best of his work resonate more strongly.
Lucky Over There: Meeting the Greek Translator of Breece D’J Pancake
Perhaps, without realizing it, a part of me had begun to wish Pancake’s fame had never grown beyond the depths of the library where I found him, to wish his brutal brilliance was a secret known only within the state borders.