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Dreams from a Glass House: An Interview with Josiah McElheny
Phillip Kester’s portrait of Paul Scheerbart, 1910. Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie, Archiv Kester Paul Scheerbart doesn’t figure very prominently in modern German belles lettres—nor, more...
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(Give Me That) Old-Time Socialist Utopia
How the Strugatsky brothers’ science fiction went from utopian to dystopian. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Near the beginning of The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn, a 1970 novel by the Russian science-fiction...
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Meet Your New Neighbors: An Interview with DW Gibson
DW Gibson. Photo: Chiara Barzini In cities, trends come, go, and come again; causes rise to prominence, fall by the wayside, and emerge repackaged; neighborhoods flourish or fall out of favor. Condos,...
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The Power of Human Ingenuity, and Other News
An illustration by Félix Vallotton from Paul Scheerbart’s Rakkóx the Billionaire & the Great Race, 1901. New York Review of Books.The Danish writer Dorthe Nors decided to leave Copenhagen for...
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(Give Me That) Old-Time Socialist Utopia
We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year!Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.How the Strugatsky brothers’ science fiction...
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All Roads Lead to Death, and Other News
Still from Manchester by the Sea. After the trials of Margaret—a brilliant movie written in 2003, filmed in ’05, released in compromised form in 2011, and rereleased in less compromised form in...
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Mario Carreño and Concrete Cuba
The story behind our Winter cover. The cover of our Winter 2016 issue features Sin título, composición (Untitled, composition), a muted, geometric painting from 1956 by the Cuban artist Mario...
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Zonies, Part 3: Utopia
Mike Powell’s column is about living in Arizona. Biosphere 2. One morning, in early 2011, my friend Ray took a few friends and me up to a place about an hour north of Tucson called Biosphere 2. Ray...
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We’ll Always Have Barf Bags, and Other News
The barf bag: a comforting cultural constant. These days, it often seems the world has tilted on its axis: nothing is the same, we’ve broken with the past, there’s no going back. But we’ve still got...
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Jungle Love
Why we keep looking for lost jungle cities. An illustration of Colonel Percy Fawcett doing battle with a giant anaconda, from the cover of Exploration Fawcett. Dry, desolate landscapes tend to...
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When Mascots Go Mad, and Other News
Sebastian the Ibis in a fit of pique. Listen well: to be a sports mascot is to wear a hair shirt. These people are flagellating themselves. After a while, donning the costume comes with mental...
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The Best for the Most for the Least
Though best known for their furniture designs, Charles and Ray Eames made more than 125 films—striking attempts “to get across an idea.” Still from Powers of Ten. The movie theater is a gauge for...
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The Seventy-Four Best Entries in The Devil’s Dictionary
From the cover of the University of Georgia Press edition of The Devil’s Dictionary. In my village, we have an idiom. “When’s last time you looked in on [X]—?” “X” is always some acknowledged...
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The Future Is a Struggle: On Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless
“I make nothing new, create nothing: I’m a sort of mad journalist,” Kathy Acker writes in 1989, on Empire of the Senseless, her fifth book from a major publisher and first venture into the realm of...
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Self-Surveillance in the Internet Age
Hilma af Klint, Birch, 1922. Coherence is mutilation. I want disorder. —The Departure of the Train, Clarice Lispector For those who want to escape their own subjectivity, the Internet should be a...
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All Roads Lead to Death, and Other News
Still from Manchester by the Sea. After the trials of Margaret—a brilliant movie written in 2003, filmed in ’05, released in compromised form in 2011, and rereleased in less compromised form in...
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Mario Carreño and Concrete Cuba
The story behind our Winter cover. The cover of our Winter 2016 issue features Sin título, composición (Untitled, composition), a muted, geometric painting from 1956 by the Cuban artist Mario...
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Zonies, Part 3: Utopia
Mike Powell’s column is about living in Arizona. Biosphere 2. One morning, in early 2011, my friend Ray took a few friends and me up to a place about an hour north of Tucson called Biosphere 2. Ray...
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We’ll Always Have Barf Bags, and Other News
The barf bag: a comforting cultural constant. These days, it often seems the world has tilted on its axis: nothing is the same, we’ve broken with the past, there’s no going back. But we’ve still got...
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Jungle Love
Why we keep looking for lost jungle cities. An illustration of Colonel Percy Fawcett doing battle with a giant anaconda, from the cover of Exploration Fawcett. Dry, desolate landscapes tend to...
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