The Baffler (no. 30) Contents
From the Archive
Clip-On Tie
The diary of a New York art museum security guard
David Berman
14
Fantasy Islands Withering on the Vine
A tale of two democracies
Thomas Frank Despair Fatigue
How hopelessness grew boring
David Graeber
16
26
Panic! Room
Keep Fear Alive
The bald-eagle boondoggle of the terror wars
Kade Crockford The New Man of 4chan
Angela Nagle Everybody Freeze!
The extropians want your body
Corey Pein Taking Liberties
Cults and capitalism
Ann Neumann Boys Will Be Men
Amber A’Lee Frost
50
64
84
102
114
Stories
The Locked Room
Ottessa Moshfegh People Are Streinz
Christos Ikonomou The Sunstroke
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Poems
The refugees born for a land unknown
Edwin Muir Frameless Treatment Guidance Systems
Melissa Monroe Vision
Melissa Monroe No Need to Argue Anymore
Fani Papageorgiou Memory
Natalia Ginzburg from Absolute Solitude
Dulce María Loynaz Ulysses XXI
Benjamin Fondane
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78
13
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