Boyish Sun
Italian novelist and antifascist Cesare Pavese was sent into confino in Southern Italy by the fascists. Ben Philipps reviews the poetry he composed in these lonely years.
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On Mid-Century Aesthetic Education
A movement of radical pedagogy briefly triumphed in the heyday of Britain’s welfare state, with deep roots in the aesthetic philosophies of the 19th century. Ruth Thrush writes on the possibility of recovering this forgotten moment.
Cruisers
One girl gave a thirty-year-old vape store manager a blowjob while he was hawking pink and orange vape cartridges that looked like sippy cups. He died from a blood clot not long after, and she tattooed his name on the inside of her thigh. She was the wildest of us, and we treated her with a kind of awe.