A Safe Space for Unsafe Ideas
Editors note: A few weeks back we received a concise and very appealing message in our journal mailbox: “I know very well you have never read anything like this. Please let me know if you need any information from me. My best,” – Louis Bourgeois, Executive Director of VOX Press and Program Director of the
Editors note: A few weeks back we received a concise and very appealing message in our journal mailbox: “I know very well you have never read anything like this. Please let me know if you need any information from me. My best,” – Louis Bourgeois, Executive Director of the Mississippi Prison Writers Initiative. Indeed, the
Have a look at the picture above. How do you interpret it? Does it display intolerable cruelty to animals? Is it a harsh reminder that civilization and societal norms form just a thin crust over our selfish, barbaric… animal instincts? That’s a funny reasoning. Then why should we feel bad if we share our ferocity
Dr. Mildred Pipkins would have had a bad day were it not for the letter she received that evening. It was the day of the Buckstaberry Art Academy’s annual staff awards ceremony. From the moment she woke up, she tried not to think about the ceremony. Dr. Pipkins started the day as any other. She
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Now, Washington and its commentariat, in 2026, have a brilliant new idea: The High Iranian Pain Threshold.
Smuggled out of the Iran Iraq War at age four with exactly two suitcases, Arash Sedighi channels the gritty survival of his refugee childhood into uncompromising British cinema
The water coursing through the basement tubes calls me back to my work. It’s probably toilet water I’m hearing. The noise is reassuring.
Get lost with the whore of Babylon.
Barbara van Ittersum works between staged fiction and portraiture and creates psychologically and psychopathically charged visual scenes called Barbarizsm.