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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
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
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
Blue Guys
"Every base is covered. There is no excuse to stay sober."
 • Theodore Gary
Plaster Books in a Concrete Prison
"Anyone looks like a scholar in such an environment. The guide called the background 'dark academia.'"
 • Jonas Rosenthal
In the Beak of the Heron
"I thought that if social life was confusing, isolating, and fearful, then the natural world, the world that could be walked and seen, would provide…
 • Will Diana
All of Russell's Men
"I also worried about conferences full of those who eat the cake of Christian morality whole."
 • Elan Kluger
The Vagueness of Her Discontent
"To the onlooker it is not even worth explaining why, once I returned to my 'roots,' I started to like Lahiri."
 • Isabel Mehta
The Youth
"Does anyone know where Gandhi went to pre-school?"
 • Benjamin Samuels
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