2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (292+ words) Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Knopf, 400 pages. 2026. Made You Look by Tanya Grant. Berkley, 368 pages. 2025. I Could Be Famous: Stories by Sydney Rende. Bloomsbury, 272 pages. 2026. Just Watch Me by Lior Torenberg. Avid Reader Press, 288 pages. 2026. Actresses play characters; influencers play…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (133+ words) That a corporation has enough power to resist the state doesn't bode particularly well. Concentrated private power, even with the noblest of aims, is still a structural threat. If Anthropic now appears more ethical relative to its competitors for biting…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (175+ words) Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class by Noam Scheiber. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 384 pages. 2026. The professed care for each worker's development was sacrificed at the altar of marginal efficiencies. In Mutiny, younger workers' anger at a…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (211+ words) Age verification laws restrict freedom of expression for adult consumers, but they are proving even more costly for the people who actually work in the online adult entertainment industry. Age verification laws are an artificial structural barrier that reshapes the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1934+ words) Writing itself can serve as a form of spiritual recovery from the labor that funded it. Worse than being curious is appearing confused when no (credible) answers are given. This silence, of course, conceals the way in which cultural capital…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (217+ words) By framing street-level suffering as a crisis requiring a rapid response team, cities displace attention from the slow violence that precedes the 911 call. In New York City, debates over mental health often center on involuntary treatment laws and subway safety....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (233+ words) The Yugoslav Wars never ended, they just entered into global circulation." Efforts to rid Bosnia of any latent jihadist threat in the wake of the war on terror were relatively successful, but they weren't perfect. They are spitting on a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (651+ words) No Time to Die'thebaffler. com No Time to Die Finding yourself sliding down the lower leg of the K-shaped economy? You're not alone in facing the downturn: sunny prospects are saved for those with assets to inflate and the dwindling…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (163+ words) Unbroken conflict produces a steady supply of men with skills in the exercise of violence, as well as the demand for their service. These men were described by veteran war correspondent Al J. Venter as "a bumptious, ill-disciplined bunch of racists…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (324+ words) There's an implicit assumption behind this techno-optimistic historical narrative, and it's now being drilled harder than ever: This is the unavoidable next stage in technological evolution, so you may as well just accept it. The really disturbing thing is how'well'it…...