Issue 109: 30 April 2020

For the Bookshelf: Bestsellers in the Age of Trump

By Tara Campbell   All the President’s Mendacity How to Screw Allies and Idolize Dictators Where’s My African-American?: the Great Picture Puzzle Book Foreign Policy for Goddamn Idiots Windmill Noise-Cancer is Not a Thing, and Other Actual Facts The Man, the Myth, the Legendary Shitstorm: An “Illegitimate” Biography What the Fuck? Asking for a Nation […]

Group Home Rattle

By Andrés Castro Dropped and broken, over and over, we were dropped broken here— the labeled Spic and Nigger boys, said from stupid mothers and ugly fathers, said marked by wire gashes, gunshots, and sex toys, waking to crying, screaming, lying, threats. We were dropped broken here. Who bothers to look inside the hand that’s […]

To Kill a Creep

By Samantha Tkac   1.  Hop on the T and head to the job interview you’ve been excited about for weeks. When the man huffing Nicorette breath against the back of your neck snags the bucket of your slacks as you step out onto the platform, whip around so you can pound your knuckles into […]

I Was Ranting About

By Pedro Hoffmeister   the school district brought in a tech-expert, an Apple educator, a dynamic speaker, paid a lot of money to come speak to us, started by asking us to name our favorite technologies, audience members calling out new apps and video games I’d never heard of. I yelled, “The toilet” because it […]