September 30, 2023
Winter Editions: Launch Party
Readings by Richard Hell, Garth Graeper, Marina Tëmkina, Emily Simon, Lydia Cortes, and Peter Bushyeager
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September 30, 2023
Readings by Richard Hell, Garth Graeper, Marina Tëmkina, Emily Simon, Lydia Cortes, and Peter Bushyeager
September 29, 2023
At the n+1 office
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September 12, 2023
The brand is the thing in itself, the tautological thing.
September 1, 2023
The monarchy needs the army to safeguard the throne and the army needs the king to justify its role in politics.
The last years of Bhumibol coincided with the emergence of a new generation in Thailand, which grew up during a time in which the royal propaganda started to subside. Around this time too, the emergence of social media served to expand political horizons, showing young Thais how people fought for democracy in other parts of the world.
August 31, 2023
A polemic
Due to copyright laws that prevent its monetization (and in contrast to the careerism unsubtly promoted by MFA programs), fanfiction cannot technically be other than a labor of love—though Y/N demonstrates how easily legible thinly-veiled references to sufficiently famous celebrities can be. The real problem with fanfiction, from a mainstream literary perspective, is precisely that its authors not only love reading (movies, music, other books) too much, they also love writing too much. And it shows!
August 29, 2023
Women’s World Cup dispatch: Part 3
August 28, 2023
Kemi Adeyemi, Tausif Noor, Monica Uszerowicz
Selections from Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism
August 25, 2023
Congratulations to Nicolás Medina Mora and Christine Smallwood
August 18, 2023
Is psychoanalysis a path to change, or a way of avoiding it?
It is significant that conversion, in its extremist form, comes on the scene when frustration is no longer bearable, as a failure of tolerance—the preeminent virtue of political liberalism. Phillips’s other watchwords are the familiar liberal ones of sympathy, negotiation, compromise, and collaboration. “Liberals,” he says in On Wanting to Change, “prefer conversation to rote learning, multiple perspectives to exclusive explanation, [and] dissent to conformity.” For those reasons, “Liberalism is by definition not something one is converted to.”
August 15, 2023
I want to live
August 15, 2023
Will the Swedish figure out how to score in live play, or are they too dependent on winning set pieces and being tall?
August 14, 2023
There will still be addictions, relapses, traumas, betrayals, interpersonal dramas, and sudden deaths the day after the revolution. Comrades will still let us down, and we’ll still hold grudges and harbor resentments. Parents will still be uncomprehending or oppressive or worse, and we’ll still wish that we’d never said that to her or walked away that night or gone home with him again or fought with them or failed.