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Pornographic Noir | Ian Townsend’s Purgatory

By Conor Hultman

Pornographic Noir | Ian Townsend’s <em>Purgatory</em>

Interviews | Movies

Only for the Good Guys | Talking From The Head with George Griffith

By William Boyle

Only for the Good Guys | Talking <em>From The Head</em> with George Griffith

Interviews | Movies

My First Death Threats | Talking Dogleg with Al Warren and Michael Bible

By William Boyle

My First Death Threats | Talking <em>Dogleg</em> with Al Warren and Michael Bible

Reviews

The Most Dangerous Cudgel

By Robin McLean

Columns | Music

Make Love in My Car | Episode 5: A Hip-Hop Higher Education

By Kendra Allen

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | May 2023

By William Boyle

Interviews

Telling People About the Lights | A Conversation with Matthew Vollmer

By Nathan Dragon

Reviews

Old South, My Ass | Dan Leach’s Dead Mediums

By Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster

Old South, My Ass | Dan Leach’s <em>Dead Mediums</em>

Music | Reviews

Two of Rap’s Great Oddballs | On Madvillainy

By Sam Hockley-Smith

Two of Rap’s Great Oddballs | On <em>Madvillainy</em>

Reviews

Stories We Don’t Want to Hear | Fernanda Melchor’s This Is Not Miami

By Cory Oldweiler

Stories We Don’t Want to Hear | Fernanda Melchor’s <em>This Is Not Miami</em>

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | April 2023

By William Boyle

Reviews

Reaching New Heights | Sebastián Martínez Daniell’s Two Sherpas

By Sam Carter

Reaching New Heights | Sebastián Martínez Daniell’s <em>Two Sherpas</em>

Columns | Music

The Guest List | Special Interest

Reviews

Capitalism and Culpability | Andrés Neuman’s Bariloche

By Federico Perelmuter

Capitalism and Culpability | Andrés Neuman’s <em>Bariloche</em>

Interviews

Muscles & Imagination | An Interview with Tyler Keith

By Max Hipp

Interviews

Something Unseen in the Commonplace | A Conversation with Charlie Parr

By Gene Kwak

Reviews

The Noise an Object Makes | Yuri Herrera’s Ten Planets

The Noise an Object Makes | Yuri Herrera’s <em>Ten Planets</em>

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | March 2023

By William Boyle

Interviews

Scribes for the Darkness | An Interview with Mariana Enriquez and Megan McDowell

By Sarah Booker

Interviews

Desire and Its Objects | A Conversation with Madelaine Lucas

By Zach Davidson

Reviews

Semiotics for the Global Damned | Daisuke Shen and Vi Khi Nao’s Funeral Parade of Roses

By Conor Hultman

Semiotics for the Global Damned | Daisuke Shen and Vi Khi Nao’s <em>Funeral Parade of Roses</em>

Columns | Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Manu and the Snake

By Liam Baranauskas

Reviews

A Fragmentary Novel that Glimmers with Light | Astrid Roemer’s On a Woman’s Madness

By Elizabeth Gonzalez James

A Fragmentary Novel that Glimmers with Light | Astrid Roemer’s <em>On a Woman’s Madness</em>

Interviews

Keeping Time at Texas Roadhouse | A Conversation with David Nutt

By Gina Nutt

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | February 2023

By William Boyle

Columns | Music

The Guest List | MJ Lenderman

Reviews

Natural Ecstasy | Kevin Maloney’s The Red-Headed Pilgrim

By Mila Jaroniec

Natural Ecstasy | Kevin Maloney’s <em>The Red-Headed Pilgrim</em>

Music

Video Premiere: Snarlin’ Yarns | “Electric Prairie Rain”

Reviews | Sports

The Magic Trick They Will Never Get Sick of Performing | Thomas Beller’s Lost in the Game

By Burke Nixon

The Magic Trick They Will Never Get Sick of Performing | Thomas Beller’s <em>Lost in the Game</em>

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | January 2023

By William Boyle

Reviews

The Glory of Cleaning Toilets | Paul Lafargue’s The Right to Be Lazy

By Garth Miró

The Glory of Cleaning Toilets | Paul Lafargue’s <em>The Right to Be Lazy</em>

Interviews

A Language of Nowhere | A Conversation with Juan Pablo Villalobos

By Rosalind Harvey

Web Exclusives

10 Must-Read Books of 2022

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | December 2022

By William Boyle

Interviews | Music

The Ecology of a Scene | A Conversation with Lenny Kaye

By Elizabeth Nelson

Reviews

Notes from the Bathroom Stalls of Our Hearts | Jon Berger’s Goon Dog

By Conor Hultman

Notes from the Bathroom Stalls of Our Hearts | Jon Berger’s <em>Goon Dog</em>

Interviews

Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body | A Conversation with Christopher Cantwell

By Weldon Pless

<em>Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body</em> | A Conversation with Christopher Cantwell

Reviews

If Memory Serves | Sylvia Molloy’s Dislocations

By Sam Carter

If Memory Serves | Sylvia Molloy’s <em>Dislocations</em>

Reviews

Our Eternal Debasement | Evelio Rosero’s Toño the Infallible

By Federico Perelmuter

Our Eternal Debasement | Evelio Rosero’s <em>Toño the Infallible</em>

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | November 2022

By William Boyle

Reviews

An Epistolary Novel for the 21^st Century | Elle Nash’s Gag Reflex

By Conor Hultman

An Epistolary Novel for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century | Elle Nash’s <em>Gag Reflex</em>

Reviews

An Islander with All Her Muddles | Cristina Bendek’s Salt Crystals

By Drew Broussard

An Islander with All Her Muddles | Cristina Bendek’s <em>Salt Crystals</em>

Interviews

The Mysteries of Reading and Writing | An Interview with Amina Cain

By Mark Haber

Reviews

Slow Your Heart, Hold Your Breath | Hillary Leftwich’s Aura

By Mila Jaroniec

Slow Your Heart, Hold Your Breath | Hillary Leftwich’s <em>Aura</em>

Interviews

Cosmic Roots in a Hungry Land | Unearthing The Hollow Kind with Andy Davidson

By Joe Koch

Cosmic Roots in a Hungry Land | Unearthing <em>The Hollow Kind</em> with Andy Davidson

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | October 2022

By William Boyle

Interviews

Held Hostage by Truth | A Conversation with Joe Koch

By Andy Davidson

Interviews

A Productive Tension | An Interview with Kathryn Scanlan

By Zach Davidson

Reviews

A New Lodestar | The Collected Stories of Peter Christopher

By Conor Hultman

Interviews

Finding Poetry in the News | An Interview with Ashton Politanoff

By Ryan Ridge

Interviews

More Fun Down Here | A Conversation with Garth Miró

By Mila Jaroniec

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | September 2022

By William Boyle

Interviews

The Owls of Literature | An Interview with Jack Pendarvis

Columns | Music

The Guest List | The Paranoid Style

Interviews

The Absurdity of Art | An Interview with Courtney Denelle

By Kimberly King Parsons

Interviews

Making Light of It | An Interview with Sadie Shorr-Parks

By Gabrielle Bates

Interviews

Bloodlines | A Conversation with Kendra Allen

By Halle Hill

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | August 2022

By William Boyle

Interviews

Ecstatic Boredom | A Conversation with Daryl Lim Wei Jie

By Greg Brownderville

Interviews

The Phantasmagoric Code | An Interview with Ave Barrera

By Ellen Jones

Reviews

We Only Do What We Must | Nada Alic’s Bad Thoughts

By Shy Watson

We Only Do What We Must | Nada Alic’s <em>Bad Thoughts</em>

Interviews

The Freedom to Get Weird | An Interview with David Leo Rice

By Jedidiah Ayres

Reviews

Degraded by Time, Distorted by Perspective | Julián Fuks’s Resistance and Occupation

By Marshall Shord

Degraded by Time, Distorted by Perspective | Julián Fuks’s <em>Resistance </em> and <em>Occupation</em>

Interviews | Music

Two Places at Once | Talking Shop with Thomas Dollbaum

By Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | July 2022

By Jack Pendarvis

Interviews

Moments of Uncertainty | An Interview with Katya Adaui

By Fionn Petch

Music

Transmissions from Another World | On Terry Allen’s Smokin’ the Dummy and Bloodlines

By Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Transmissions from Another World | On Terry Allen’s <em>Smokin’ the Dummy</em> and <em>Bloodlines</em>

Interviews

The Position of the Written Word | An Interview with Diamela Eltit

By Daniel Hahn

Interviews

Seeking Freefall | An Interview with Lindsay Lerman

By Nate Lippens

Music

Video Premiere: The Delines | “Pretty Perdita (Bonita Perdita)”

Interviews

The Music of Silence | An Interview with Luis Sagasti

By Fionn Petch

Columns | Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Things That Must Be Done

By Liam Baranauskas

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | June 2022

By William Boyle

Interviews

You Laugh So You Don’t Blow Your Brains Out | A Conversation with Bud Smith

By Kimberly King Parsons

Interviews

On Family Album | A Conversation with Gabriela Alemán

By Mary Ellen Fieweger and Dick Cluster

On <em>Family Album</em> | A Conversation with Gabriela Alemán

Interviews

Myopic, Fanatical, Absurd | A Conversation with Mark Haber

By Odie Lindsey

Music

Tale of the Tapes | 7 Songs from DJ Screw’s Mixtape Catalog

By Lance Scott Walker

Interviews

The Devil’s Most Valuable Work | An Interview with Daniel Guebel

By Jessica Sequeira

Sports

Behold a Great Flying Man

By Kyle Beachy

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | May 2022

By William Boyle

Reviews

A Massive Living Mural | Fernando A. Flores’s Valleyesque

By David Leo Rice

A Massive Living Mural | Fernando A. Flores’s <em>Valleyesque</em>

Interviews

Un-finishing Fiction | A Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza

By Sarah Booker

Reviews

A Novel That Knows What Football Means in the South

By Gabino Iglesias

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | April 2022

By William Boyle

Interviews

Life Circulates Around Us & Writing Is What We Do with It

By Ryan Ridge

Reviews

A Surreal Delight | Juan Emar’s Yesterday

By Mark Haber

A Surreal Delight | Juan Emar’s <em>Yesterday</em>

Reviews

The Workshop of an Iconoclast | Machado de Assis’s Resurrection

By Marshall Shord

The Workshop of an Iconoclast | Machado de Assis’s <em>Resurrection</em>

Interviews

Gleebombs & Humhearts | A Conversation with Abraham Smith

By Elijah Burrell

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | March 2022

By William Boyle

Web Exclusives

The Tailor

Interviews

Stylistic Promiscuity | A Conversation with Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

By Noel Hernández Gonzáles

Reviews

Weird, Bloody Magic | Mónica Ojeda’s Jawbone

By Gabino Iglesias

Weird, Bloody Magic | Mónica Ojeda’s <em>Jawbone</em>

Interviews

“A Grave Moral Mistake” | The Tragedy of P.G. Wodehouse’s Berlin Broadcasts

By Elizabeth Nelson

Reviews

The Bitter Perfume of Mystery | Sergio Pitol’s The Love Parade

By Wilson McBee

The Bitter Perfume of Mystery | Sergio Pitol’s <em>The Love Parade</em>

Columns | Movies

I Wake Up Streaming | February 2022

By William Boyle

Music

Video Premiere: Thomas Dollbaum | “God’s Country”

Columns | Music

The Guest List | Parquet Courts

Reviews

A Special Kind of Rage | Paulo Scott’s Phenotypes

By Marshall Shord

A Special Kind of Rage | Paulo Scott’s <em>Phenotypes</em>

Columns | Sports

Let Us Now Praise Giant Men | Hardship Exemptions

By Liam Baranauskas

Columns | Music

Make Love in My Car | Episode 4: Riding in Cars with White Men Who Don’t Care About Me

By Kendra Allen