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Tom Hayden According to the Enemy
M. Delmonico Connolly considers the FBI file on 1960s icon Thomas Hayden.
All Essays
Three Brief Portraits of Monica Vitti (1931–2022)
Erik Morse provides three flashes of the late cinematic icon Monica Vitti.
The Radical Opening of the Human and Black Love in Amazon’s “Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds”
Bernabé S. Mendoza reviews a collection of SF stories that includes work by Nnedi Okorafor, Nisi Shawl, and Victor LaValle.
The Eternal Exile: On Jonas Mekas’s Cinema of Memory and Displacement
Dante A. Ciampaglia looks back over the long career of avant-garde film pioneer Jonas Mekas.
Memory Work: Reading and Writing Japanese American Incarceration
Following the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, Erin Aoyama reflects on the uses of Japanese American memory work.
A Late Child: The Fiction of Angus Wilson
Robert Cremins remembers the “tattered humanism” of the fine, now sadly neglected, English novelist Angus Wilson.
“Poetry Is a Superpower”: Edward Vidaurre and FlowerSong Press
Dick Cluster profiles the Los Angeles–born, Texas-based small-press poet and publisher Edward Vidaurre.
The Forgotten Noir Detective
Daniel Polansky reviews “Me, Detective,” Leslie T. White’s memoir of his experiences in the LAPD that served as inspiration for Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe.
All Hail the Appeasers
Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews “Munich: The Edge of War” by placing it in its proper historical-cultural context.
American Flags: A Conversation About a Contested National Icon
The changing, rippling, contentious American flag.
An Art of Variety: A Response to Richard Joseph
Antonio J. Ferraro responds to Richard Joseph on the state of contemporary literary criticism, online and elsewhere.
Performing Is Learning: A Teacher’s Memoir
Poet David Mason reflects on a lifetime of teaching literature as performance.
soon one day. still.
Zabe Bent calls out white people’s languid social commitments in the face of police killings of Black people.
Out of the War Zone: A Conversation Between Paul Watson and Dan O’Brien
Dan O’Brien talks with Paul Watson, a prize-winning war reporter, about Afghanistan, Ukraine, and why most journalism is bullshit.
What Is Space Opera in the 2020s?
Grant Wythoff surveys recent books by Tade Thompson, Becky Chambers, and Arkady Martine that could be called space operas.
“No Good Comes Out of a Spook Show”: Adaptation, Anxiety, and Trauma in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley”
Dane Reighard considers how del Toro adapted a 1946 noir and, in the process, uncovered its contemporary resonances.
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