Scott McClanahan Says Don't Fuck Around Near a Table Saw by Lavinia Ludlow
“A teen stripper amputee emerges from the curtains with a pasty on the end of her “nub””
As If Knowing the Answers Ever Changes Anything, by Matty Byloos
“capable of loving beyond the categories of sexuality and gender”
There Are Too Many Ways to Hurt by Tracy Dimond
“why do we break each other? Is it like cutting hair off dolls?”
Songs Only You Know: Hits and Misses
“a faith in all things punk, in a city set to destroy itself”
Rob Delaney: Human
“a possibly better way of being a person, without sacrificing the fart jokes”
Biology of The Biology of Luck
“playful and eccentric, there is always an underlying darkness”
Review of Kanye West's Yeezus, in Poetic Form
“I’m full of bad ideas, mostly
when my ear is to the universe”
Review: Daft Punk's Random Access Memories
“The album has some lofty ambitions, and wears its servo-heart on its shiny sleeve”
Book Review: Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be?
“the context of our lives wrapped up in the bow of fiction”
Review: Thundercat's Apocalypse
“day-glo yellow to Krylon-haze orange to highway-flare pink”
Review: Queens of the Stone Age's ...Like Clockwork
“an upbeat, time pattern-shifting eruption”
Review: The Mountain Goats' All Hail West Texas
“It is somber but not sad, the loss finding many forms”
Review: Black Sabbath's 13
“well-oiled war machine, setting fire to all that stands in its path”
Book Review: Pop Kids by Davey Havok
“Havok dedicates so much of the book to scrupulously describing sex”