Essay Online 1/3 God Was Good By Paul McAdory Religious affiliation can be a potent brand modifier for emerging creatives while providing fringe benefits like meaning.
Criticism Online 2/3 Derek Jarman in Paradise By Cal Revely-Calder Across his artistic mediums, Derek Jarman was often fixated on the concept of paradise. His recently recovered novella is no exception.
Fiction The Filth issue 3/3 Bottlenose By Shuang Xuetao In the afternoon, there’s an incident at the aquarium. The attendants overfill the pool, and during the feeding session, a few of the piranhas manage to leap ashore.
Art The Filth issue The Art of Namio Harukawa By McKenzie Wark Desires that are specific, codified, repetitive: that’s the formal structure of porn. Namio Harukawa is doing something a little extra.
Poetry The Filth issue Eulogy for Racehorses By Raven Leilani My dead owe money and I too will die / in debt, arrested in the state of repayment / I have learned to call love.
Issue TwoFilth Elif Batuman Samuel R. Delany Mariana Enríquez Sheila Heti Raven Leilani Maggie Millner Madame Nielsen Brontez Purnell Daniel Saldaña París Shuang Xuetao And more… View issue
Book Review Online The Baby in the Bathwater By Ashley Cullina A previously unpublished novel from cult author Katherine Dunn is blissfully unaware of the chaos it creates.
Criticism Online Something Produced Elsewhere By Madeleine Watts Brigitta Olubas’s expansive biography delves into Shirley Hazzard’s literary lifestyle in New York and Italy, as well as her paradoxical relationship to her native Australia.
Book Review Online What Sort of Woman Would I Be if I Wasn’t Thrilled for Her By Philippa Snow A pitch-black debut novel slices into plastic surgery and influencer culture with healthy ambivalence and sweetly melancholic prose.
Fiction Online Triptych from “Stripper Disintegration” By Kathy Acker this is a narration ha ha the end of the world the end of the world after after the after who after all the world is you I do an after suck my ass
Essay Online A Different Way of Being Dutch By Emma Rault Alienated by the Dutch canon, the writer and translator Emma Rault found solace and kinship in the gay poet Hans Lodeizen (1924-1950).
Interview Online You’d Like This By Fátima Vélez & Hannah Kauders Relive the inaugural Congress of Sorcery, consume mushrooms, read Virginia Woolf.
Criticism Online A Box Built in the Abyss By Jared Marcel Pollen Two newly translated works of fiction by László Krasznahorkai master the art of withholding and disclosing in fiction.
Interview Online Vigdis Hjorth: The Unclassifiable Master By Makenna Goodman Reading the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth will challenge you to confront your deepest self.
Book Review Online This Invented Nation By Federico Perelmuter A sprawling epic built equally of reality and literature, Cărtărescu's Solenoid bucks the trends of the contemporary novel.
Essay Online Search History By Kevin Chen My browser history this week has been all about the USA, and cute shirts.
Comic Online Life Is Fiction By Antoine Maillard Half of my memories come from movies or have been contaminated by them.
Interview Online You’d Like This By Melissa Febos & Denise Kripper Melissa Febos thinks you should watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Denise Kripper recommends La niña santa.
Book Review Online Prisoner of Love By Jenny Wu A new vision for community emerges in João Gilberto Noll’s Hugs and Cuddles.
Essay Online Department Store as Dreamscape By Adrienne Raphel In The Price of Salt, Therese describes the department store as a “prison,” but it also serves as a locus for imagination and liberation.
Essay Online My Weekend With the Martians By Ruby Sutton At the Assembly, a conference of Urbit denizens, Ruby Sutton discovers a community of eccentrics who dare to dream of a different internet.
Book Review Online Social Justice Fanfic By Kathy Chow Contemporary novelists are trying too hard to teach us a lesson. Ryan Lee Wong’s Which Side Are You On is a case in point.
Essay Online Search History By Billy-Ray Belcourt What does a twenty-something queer Indigenous man search on the internet? The question sounds threateningly anthropological.
Fiction The Filth issue Rich By Souvankham Thammavongsa I guess when you have those things — grandchildren, children, and a husband — you talk about them, bring them into conversations, and let people know you have them.
