Reviews of various media, as well as other fictional and non-fictional writings.

“…in the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like [Roger] Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I.P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements. […] each point is allowed only…

Maybe you’ve read People’s History of the United States, but you’ve almost certainly had someone trying to you impress you Timothy Chalamet-style with a public showing that they can reference the Howard Zinn book. I’ve read it once, and I resonated with about half of the book. In one sense, I was refreshed by accounts…

(Originally appeared in The Dial Tone Issue 002 by Landline Collective in March 2022.) It shouldn’t feel like anything. Threats of a corrupted past sink the world. The other face of the threat: perception, built out of a negative form, an attempt to pay debts, an unending, seemed up life for everyone. Can’t leave the…