Our fall issue is here! Read new work from this year's Windham-Campbell Prizes prizewinners, including Ordinary Notes, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kathryn Scanlan, & many others. Plus: Hilton Als on Richard Pryor, Chris Ware on Richard Scarry, Jonathan Griffin on Mike Kelley, & more.

The whole world is a sacred cathedral; no person is unordained for the kingdom, and no place is unhallowed in this world. +Patriarch Bartholomew

Susan Sontag called official propagandizing in the wake of 9/11 stupid and dangerous and to this day, for reasons I can hardly fathom, people willingly claim that she was referring specifically to them.

Jonathan Franzen has spent twenty years making good on this threat.

“By all means let’s grieve together. But let us not be stupid together” what a hero!

Been said already, but I can’t stop thinking about how we have never stopped punishing Haiti for throwing off the colonial yoke, up to and including today’s horrifying incitement.

My earliest scholarly work was about the spread of eugenicist theories about the origins of HIV. The resurrection of this early libel is almost surreally evil

I’m noticing those who accuse Haitians of having syncretist beliefs themselves seem to have syncretist beliefs in something called “the west” or “Christendom” or “masculinity”.

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a catholic bishop sat down at a table with this sick, sad man to have a serious conversation about "critical race theory"

“The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life…” NOSTRA AETATE PROCLAIMED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI ON OCTOBER 28, 1965

But wait a minute, I, an American Catholic, have always been told that religions are like neighborhoods and I should be grateful that I’m in the one with the gates and the security cameras???

tired: strategy of tension wired: chaotic freestyle of violent exhaustion

Shouldn’t Harris be delivering, on a stage in Springfield, Ohio, a defining, prime-time speech, on immigration, tolerance, racism, and US openness to the world?

“A fun take on “Northern Shuffle” with Jorge Roeder and Dave King Drums in Minneapolis on Saturday! 🎥: Jared Lichtenberg

Thanks to the generosity of the film's distributor NEON, all tickets to LA CHIMERA's final shows at 11:00am and 9:45pm on Thursday are FREE to the public. But that's not all...

Cab driver last night was over the moon about how tall my wife and I are. Wouldn’t stop talking about it. Made her promise not to smoke when she gets pregnant. When we stopped he got out to shake our hands and said “oh my god.”