Put your hand out like you’re asking for money

Also I went to Japan

Elvia Wilk writes that the film Sleep Dealer shows what happens when the 24/7 economy treats the body clock as an inconvenience to be overcome.

Proposals, Venices, Podcasts, Museums, Readings

Extremely abbreviated reviews

“It’s hard to find words to talk about this book without overusing the word devotion.”

Extremely abbreviated reviews

And you can, too

Can I, um, use it at a friend’s house?

“I need to trick myself into imagining I’m not writing about myself.”

On the Epstein dumps, the nature of blame, and returning to a 2018 essay on art and power that aged too well

"What you don’t do is as important as what you do."

Don't you want to see two movies about facial transformations? And read fiction about body doubles?

The first time I tried to ski was a catastrophe. I’ve always been unathletic and clumsy, the kind of person who hates being cold, hates waking up early, hates going fast, hates excessive gear, and gen...

The dark side of constant illumination

The first time I tried to ski was a catastrophe. I’ve always been unathletic and clumsy, the kind of person who hates being cold, hates waking up early, hates going fast, hates excessive gear, and gen...

The first time I tried to ski was a catastrophe. I’ve always been unathletic and clumsy, the kind of person who hates being cold, hates waking up early, hates going fast, hates excessive gear, and gen...

How do you know it’s an alien? On genre, conspiracy, and explaining away the horror

♾️ You know when it's here ♾️

Art used to be better, right? Its people more authentic, its institutions less corrupt? Sure, nostalgia is fine copium; but might art yet dream up the new in the language of the past?

I teach craft class. What is that tho?

I left the bank fully and completely realized as ELVIA INC, annual projected revenue: one million dollars.

Overwhelm yourselfs with stuff to see in NYC

Overwhelm yourselfs with stuff to see in NYC

Watch me transform into a corporation before your eyes

A summer in track changes

What and where to eat in Rome

The biggest political upset in city history, and other links to start a very different Wednesday.

It's not in crisis. Anyway this is about making art and writing criticism at the same time.

New novel drops next year

A taxonomy of reviews: Good faith, Bad faith, Takedown

Unearthing an interview from the late-great uncube magazine

Our friend William Reddick was granted parole this month, a long-awaited and hard-earned milestone. After a year and a half of re-incarceration, Bill is finally coming home, and we've organized this f...

Health Communism, Dying for Sex, What to See & Read

Gothic Woman Theory — Daphne du Maurier and the haunted body

Gothic Woman Theory: Chronic illness, Rebecca, and the haunted body