I heard the two men talking, this morning, before I saw them. Then I saw them, and then they saw me, walking up the steep ramp toward them to the pedestrian bridge over the expressway. Their talking s...

“I don’t care if you don’t think I’m country / it’s at the heart of me,” sings Andrew Sa. He is a singer-songwriter working in the idiom of country music, a genre long coded as politically conservativ...

Myriam Gurba descends into the darkness of a new book by Veronica Gonzalez Peña

Tod Seelie relives the history of Dead Moon; Joe MacLeod’s cinema shock

The greatest love story in Rock ’n’ Roll came from Portland, Oregon.  The one and only time I saw Dead Moon perform in 2004, I was already a superfan, on the threshold of what would be a long career ...

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The greatest love story in Rock ’n’ Roll came from Portland, Oregon.  The one and only time I saw Dead Moon perform in 2004, I was already a superfan, on the threshold of what would be a long career ...

Catching up with Canadian pro-democracy activist Charlie Angus

Kent Osborne lives in Vermont. Jack Pendarvis lives in Mississippi. The two old friends, each sleep-deprived and noticeably loopy from traveling all day, met up at a hotel bar in Burbank, California, ...

3 p.m. April 2 Adults hide many things about adulthood. Like, for instance, the fact of colonoscopies. This is the dreaded test adults over 45 must endure in order to make sure we haven’t got colon ca...

Canadian pro-democracy activist Charlie Angus raises the alarm, with Nathan Munn

1. I was 19 years old and transcribing tapes as a part-time job in college. I was desperate to stop transcribing tapes; a new client had recently given us 40 hours of sessions with her psychic, which ...

Tal Lavin dreams of the frozen North, and Trevor Alixopulos goes for a swim

Tal Lavin dreams of the frozen North, and Trevor Alixopulos goes for a swim

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This whale is watching you and judging you for your incursion into his kingdom. His judgement is ruthless but resolves in your favor. You are cleansed.

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All I want to talk about is the frame in Filipiñana, because it doesn’t work like any movie I’ve ever seen. But first, some backstory. The Godzilla Minus Zero trailer dropped a couple weeks ago. It’s...

The aspect ratio is the message, says J.D. Connor; Anna Merlan’s teenage dreamboat

Once upon a time in the early 2000s, when I was very young and more impressionable than I realized at the time, every single fucking teen movie was about An Ugly (Glasses-Wearing) Girl Who Is Finally ...

Once upon a time in the early 2000s, when I was very young and more impressionable than I realized at the time, every single fucking teen movie was about An Ugly (Glasses-Wearing) Girl Who Is Finally ...

The aspect ratio is the message, says J.D. Connor; Anna Merlan’s teenage dreamboat

New speculative fiction from Annalee Newitz

One more bouquet for Dolly Parton, from Jídé Salawu

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