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'Claim Your Own Dancefloor'
On the last day of 1977, as New York City’s landlords were finding greater profit in torching certain neighbourhoods than owning them, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards went to a party. Their group Chic...
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Page Three: An Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh
A fascination with the depraved powers Ottessa Moshfegh’s fiction. Her first novel, McGlue, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose, follows a drunken, hallucinating sailor around the world in the...
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White Supremacy is Not a Black Problem
In August 1908, an enraged crowd of white men and women, numbering in the high thousands, packed the streets outside a jailhouse on North 77th in Springfield, Illinois. They demanded that two black...
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What's the Point of Handwriting?
Sylvia’s handwriting was looping and crisp and clean. Though she was my girlfriend, I was, as with most girls I knew in high school, intensely jealous of her penmanship—of what seemed, at the time,...
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Dreams Are Boring
I’m a mentally ill artist, which means I have a cute mascot in Van Gogh. It also means that, every day, I take drugs that make my life less interesting.My lunatic cousins and I have been a curiosity...
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'Totalitarian Terror Isn't Operating On Your Schedule': An Interview with Jim...
Nazis are easy: They show up—on screen, on the page, in the comments within seconds of publication—and immediately, you root actively for their demise. We may never have more effective, efficient...
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The Cult of Work
“Get out of here. Go get your money,” Dominic would say as he shooed me back to work after I lingered too long on the periphery of the main floor of the gentlemen’s club in Manhattan whining about slow...
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Inside Scharpling & Wurster's 'Power Pop Pop Pop'
The Close Read is a careful look at a component part of a thing we love—a single song, a chapter, a scene, an ingredient—often with some helpful commentary from the creators themselves. In this...
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Is Journalism Bad?
Submit your questions for Scaach-22.Every day, people write racist, bullshit things in The Globe and Mail and the National Post and the Toronto Star. Every day I think, Fuck those people, I’m never...
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Why Do We Remember Scout But Not Tom?
Read Scaachi’s first letter to Alex.Scaachi!First of all, happy July 4th! I would’ve written sooner, but I’ve been busy celebrating the biggest difference between our two great nations (besides a...
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'Why Can't You Behave?': Revisiting the Case of Alice Crimmins
In a cemetery high up in the Bronx, close to the Throgs Neck Bridge that connects the northernmost city borough to Long Island, a family lies together in a single plot more than twelve miles from home....
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From Steinbeck to Cervantes: Confessing Our Literary Gaps
Recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates told a shocked interviewer that he hasn’t read To Kill A Mockingbird. “Half the stuff that interested me, my white peers have not read,” he said. “I am always surprised...
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The Broken Promise Pt. 1
CDATA[// >Ritual animal slaughter, a baby delivered by a blood-stained “angel,” and an abandoned ferris wheel.Welcome to Promise Falls.For the next four days, we’ll post an episode of Broken...
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A Midlife Crisis, By Any Other Name
At the end of 2012, at the age of 32, I told my husband I was leaving. I packed my dog and a station wagon’s worth of things and my parents came and picked me up from Maryland and drove me to New York....
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The Broken Promise Pt. 2
CDATA[// >Ritual animal slaughter, a baby delivered by a blood-stained “angel,” and an abandoned ferris wheel.Welcome to Promise Falls.This is part two of Broken Promise, a new miniseries adapted...
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'A Kind of Artistic Séance': The New Phase of Literary Collaborations
Literature favors auteurs—the solitary artist, working on his or her craft, returning from the other side with something potentially transcendental. But that isn’t an entirely accurate picture of the...
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