Butcher's Crossing
A young man bankrolls a buffalo hunt to find himself in nature, and finds a machine that pays nobody.
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Black Bag
A failed actor paid to sit in a leather bag, drawing more notice hidden than his face ever earned.
All Them Dogs
Violence taken up as courtship in West Dublin, turning every order from a lover into a form of love.
The Mulai
An archaeologist's report passed off as ethnography, compiling a whole society out of one man's failure to tell people apart.
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Prison sentences spoken as university degrees, returning each political abstraction to the people required to live inside it.
When violence enters the routine
An essay about what follows an act of violence, and Marlon James’s forthcoming The Disappearers.
The Watching Monad
A colleague's fear read as desire, alternating narration turning workplace access into administratively easy pursuit.
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
A house's debt to the devil staged as inheritance, ending in a granddaughter who lives outside its doctrine.
Bury Your Dead
A roadside depot grinds animal carcasses while human corpses wait on a morgue van that never starts. Dignity falls to whoever will carry a body.