No Such Thing as a Way Out
Krasznahorkai’s Chasing Homer portrays humanity at the end of history
Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.
All Back Pages
The Hero as a Drifting Shadow
The latest novel by the mysterious Joseph Andras gathers traces of Ho Chi Minh’s pre-revolutionary youth
Joseph Andras, a working-class neo-modernist novelist, shows us why embalming our revolutionary heroes is a mistake.
In the Domain of the Unknown
From death mask to CPR manikin, L'Inconnue de la Seine is a mythic symbol of our attempts to grapple with death - or reverse it.
A drowned Victorian teen, her medical manikin doppelganger, and their enduring entanglement with the question: “Can death be undone?”
Chastening the Past
Indigenous critiques of gender and marriage go further than The Dawn of Everything
Graeber & Wengrow neglected the indigenous critique of gender.
A Pandemic Archive
Max Alvarez’s interviews record working-class perspectives on the age of COVID
How will historians reconstruct our time: as a view from above, or from below?
Great minds are not like ordinary people; theydo not wash socks or...
From Issue 3
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
A Specter Hangs Over the Hamptons Couch
Inside the Outsider Art fair
On perusing the obscene spectacle of the Outsider Art Fair, a communist declares: abolish the art market!
