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My D.C. Odd-yssey

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Academia broke my heart

by Annalee Newitz

Predictive Text

by Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

“An infinite plane of utterly meaningless nonsense”

by Zach Rabiroff

THE INSULT THAT MADE A MAN MAKE ANOTHER MAN

by Michael Kupperman

Against the Machine (1969)

by Maria Bustillos

Recent Newsletters

09
Oct
Queer eye
Arwa Mahdawi on a gay evolution
issue-666
08
Oct
Performance anxiety / Tourist traps
Sarah Weinman on ‘Slam Frank’; Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún in D.C.
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07
Oct
A Palestine reader
Three years into a genocide
issue-664
06
Oct
Brain washed / Lost for words
Exciting news from recovering academic Annalee Newitz, and Grzegorz Kwiatkowski shares a terrible thrill
issue-663
05
Oct
Culture warrior
Dave McKean and Zach Rabiroff on the gathering storm in AI, art, and ethics
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02
Oct
Exquisite corpse / Science friction
Little-known history revealed by Michael Kupperman; a Nobel-winning biologist had the answer in 1969, says Maria Bustillos
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01
Oct
Loud sky / Hot chips
New fiction from Kate Wagner; Brian Hioe on the implications of certain snack foods
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30
Sep
Real good buds
Rax King considers the camaraderie among men at Cornell University
issue-659
29
Sep
Template for grief
Myriam Gurba descends into the darkness of a new book by Veronica Gonzalez Peña
issue-658
28
Sep
Lunar return / Underrated movie
Tod Seelie relives the history of Dead Moon; Joe MacLeod’s cinema shock
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