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Current issue, no. 38
The curiously self-punishing rites of fitness culture
The fake science that keeps threatening to kill us
How a Mexican folk idol got conscripted into the drug wars
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Pete Peterson was another billionaire who was so concerned with the federal deficit that he preached the need for austerity—for the rest of us.
“The man with the proper imagination is able to conceive of any commodity in such a way that it becomes an object of. . .
Fiction
Fabrications. Rag sheet revisionist history. All of it. We did our best by Our Girl.
My father called to tell me that my sister was going off the rails at college.
Vegetable fuchsia but faded, gilt
gone bad from its season in Hell. Plucked up
with dirt on its cheek, petrified
as a rose shut. . .
when his fork clinks against the breakfast plate,
my day is lit by a covetous rage, a fist swollen with
Word Factory
In three new novels, women protagonists overturn the "sage older man seduces beautiful ingénue" trope.
Who will help us fix our broken internet? Who will free us from the tyranny of the smartphone?
Latest
Pete Peterson was another billionaire who was so concerned with the federal deficit that he preached the need for austerity—for the rest of us.
“The man with the proper imagination is able to conceive of any commodity in such a way that it becomes an object of. . .
Fiction
Fabrications. Rag sheet revisionist history. All of it. We did our best by Our Girl.
My father called to tell me that my sister was going off the rails at college.
Vegetable fuchsia but faded, gilt
gone bad from its season in Hell. Plucked up
with dirt on its cheek, petrified
as a rose shut. . .
when his fork clinks against the breakfast plate,
my day is lit by a covetous rage, a fist swollen with
Word Factory
In three new novels, women protagonists overturn the "sage older man seduces beautiful ingénue" trope.
Who will help us fix our broken internet? Who will free us from the tyranny of the smartphone?
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