Politics

Zadie Smith's 'On Beauty' and the death (or not?) of African American literature

Notes on grappling with reality and Black petit bourgeois subject formation in the contemporary novel.

Feb 5 • Luke McGowan-Arnold and Discordia Review

Wikipedia and the 'citation needed' genocide

Wikimedia's Jimmy Wales puts his thumb on the scale and risks everything he's built

Nov 7, 2025 • Sire and Discordia Review

Why is the sky falling up?

And also something about the disappearance of literary criticism

Oct 20, 2025 • Eris and Discordia Review

'Wolfenstein,' Robert Antelme, and the inner lives of Nazis

How the negation of a villain's humanity can inadvertently help to exonerate them

Oct 6, 2025 • Eris and Discordia Review

When Adolf Hitler wrote science fiction

Norman Spinrad's "The Iron Dream" and the ideology of escapism

Aug 28, 2025 • Eris and Discordia Review

Sydney Sweeney and the Liberal Q

BlueAnon is getting next level

Aug 16, 2025 • Eris and Discordia Review

Giller Prize spotted panhandling for funding outside Parliament

If Ottawa says no to its pleas, why not try Tel Aviv?

Jul 18, 2025 • Sire and Discordia Review

'The New Yorker' kills babies

The black ops back pages of the grande dame of metropolitan sophistication.

Jul 14, 2025 • Eris and Discordia Review

The controversy over the 'Viet Cong' band name was the most 2015 shit ever

Jon McCurley et al can S my Sneaky D

Jun 5, 2025 • Eris and Discordia Review

Chuck Palahniuk and the Gay Nazi

The phenomenon of gay self-hate and its expression through the works of the man who wrote 'Fight Club'

May 15, 2025 • Eris and Discordia Review

About this whole "New Romantic" thing

Gioia, Gasda, Goethe, and the galvanizing gospel of a return to gothic grandeur

Apr 24, 2025 • Eris and Discordia Review

The song 'Peaches' is a brilliant Marxist allegory. NO, WAIT, COME BACK!!!

NO REALLY!!! I HAVE SOMETHING INTERESTING TO SAY ABOUT THIS!!! PROBABLY!!!

Apr 17, 2025 • Eris and Discordia Review

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