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Chasing the Story
“I noted when the organizers said, ‘This is our Vietnam.’ It embodied the story.”
 • Sarah Miller
THE MANIFESTO IS DEAD! THE MANIFESTO IS DEAD!
“Writing a manifesto means self-actualization to the highest degree. It necessitates a deft attention to the world that is akin to prayer.”
 • Cathy Li
Freak Show
“Algorithms reward attention, and if you can’t get the good kind, then the bad will do.”
 • Theodore Gary
Experience Is Psychosis
“As part of the school’s Covid policy, we both had to spend ten days in isolation.”
 • Will Diana and The New Critic
p(doom)
“Can prediction markets shake the hedonistic monkey from their back?”
 • Rufus Knuppel
A Cruel Joke Is Still a Joke
“Everything is plainly put, and everything is as it seems. There is nothing to be found here. It is vacuous.”
 • nadav
Imagematic Life
“I am finding it all too easy to abandon my imagematic way of life.”
 • Grace Caplan
End Times
“Gasda’s bubble of hope in the BCTR is not enough to support all of our futures, maybe just his and a few beautiful actors.”
 • Zayd Vlach
Finding a Scene among the Corporate and the Damned
“D.C. is full of people, believe it or not, who dream of beauty.”
 • Will Diana
In Defense of the Personal Essay
“If everyone’s a critic, no one’s out there living.”
 • Everett Yum
Great and Wonderful Days
“You can enter the old world through your new-world parish, where the harsh rules have remained and the old Russian princes live on as Orthodox…
 • Daniel Sandoval
Becoming Shrimp-Pilled
“If sentience is what matters…humans are not the center of the moral universe.”
 • Bentham's Bulldog
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