The Baffler

Notice by Heather Lewis. Semiotext(e), 248 pages. 2024 (2004). “ You ever look at who rides and who doesn't ? Who's good and who isn't?

Emperor Karl I was the least successful and most tragic Habsburg monarch. A symposium in Texas makes the case for why he should become a saint.

Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context.

Not everything is as it seems in Germany. That tree? It used to be a Jew. That building was once a Jew. That streetlamp was a Jew. And the Jews? It seems they're all Germans.

There was a time when the average local doctor could confidently dictate a patient's future tests or course of treatment without having their

“I gotta use words when I talk to you,” T.S. Eliot had a character in one of his plays complain, not unreasonably.

The public has spent billions on an inefficient housing system that has everything to do with corporate tax avoidance and little to do with housing.

As the automobile-clogged city of Los Angeles saw its smog problem worsen through the 1960s, Californians had ample reason to worry about environmental pollution.

Early on Monday, 5 a.m., wintery darkness with December not even underway— electricity , because it's hard to get enough done, early enough, though

Relentlessly the minutes, some of them golden, touched. —John Ashbery I had a real problem with time during my first few weeks of guarding.