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Blinded by the Frights
Aspiring It-ghoul Brittany Menjivar gets stabbed by the Grabber and barbed by Chucky at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights.
Archive
You’ve Got to Let This Razor Blade into Your Life
Tim Riley reviews Robert Hilburn’s “A Few Words In Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman.”
The Ethics of Materiality
Christopher Kondrich reviews Aditi Machado’s “Material Witness”
Provisional Necessity
Christian Wessels reviews Forrest Gander’s “Mojave Ghost.”
Lifestyles of the Rich and the Abject
Caroline Tracey explores, via Dahlia de la Cerda’s “Reservoir Bitches,” the possibilities and limits of women’s agency on the fringes of Mexico’s narcosphere.
On Cat Memes, Cannibalism, and Election Lead-Up Laughter
Maggie Hennefeld writes on the powers and perils of satirical laughter in the run-up to the 2024 US elections.
Is It Time to Have Real Universal Suffrage in the United States?
Paul Finkelman reviews Richard L. Hasen’s “A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.”
Cookbook for the Recently Deceased
Brittany Menjivar departs Tinseltown for Halloween Town and gets her Edward Burger Hands dirty.
Every Abyss Is a Matter of Time
Alina Stefanescu reviews “The Use of Photography” by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, newly translated into English by Alison L. Strayer.
A Technique for Managing the Obliteration of My Self
James Webster reviews Lucy Ives’s essay collection “An Image of My Name Enters America.”
A Question for the (Sub)Culture
Brittany Menjivar enters the Void to get slizzard at the Subculture anniversary party in Mid-City.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s “Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde”
Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Alexis Pauline Gumbs about “Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.”
The New Artificial Intelligentsia
In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
Cockfighter of the Year
Dylan Adamson reviews Kier-La Janisse’s “Cockfight: A Fable of Failure,” a book about the 1974 film “Cockfighter.”
Manuscripts Don’t Burn
Raymond De Luca reviews a long-awaited new film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita.”
We Lived to Tell
A. J. Urquidi splurges on emo guyliner at his mall’s Hot Topic before watching Saosin play their timeless debut record live in Garden Grove.
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