We start collecting with rocks. We begin, then, in the realm of prehistory, poring over minerals that might be millions or billions of years old, numbers so large and abstract that children might spend hours trying to conceptualize them.
December 15, 2020
Sophie Haigney
Accumulation and Appreciation
Sasha Frere-Jones
Music for Television
This was the gray susurration of PBS and all the corduroy dads of the long afternoons.
December 1, 2020
Brontez Purnell
The Covid Sex Diaries
The line was drawn—who were the boys who would remain celibate? And who were the boys who would fuck?
November 17, 2020
Kate Zambreno
Texts of Nothing
What could the “I” be in language, could it dissolve into other “I’s,” could it be multiple? Could the I’s begin playing games with each other?
July 28, 2020