no. 81 - After Words
no. 80 - American Vendetta
no. 79 - Player Haters
no. 78 - Homeland Insecurity
no. 77 - Expatriates
no. 76 - Get in Line
no. 75 - Facing the Future
no. 74 - Altered States
no. 73 - Consolation Prizes
no. 72 - Life Alert
The Baffler, est. 1988, is a magazine of art, criticism, and political analysis, publishing bimonthly print issues as well as daily online dispatches.
The Baffler
Screen Sick
We Used to Read Things in This Country • The history of literacy is the history of class
Excerpt from “The Song of Other Things”
Speak and Sell • Ms. Rachel and the disappearing world of books
The Hatred of Podcasting • Talking has finished off writing
Tongue Delirium
DISPATCHES FROM A POSTLITERATE WORLD
LITERATURE AWAY FROM THE GAZE
LITERACY AND SUICIDE RATES
AN ARTIFICIAL AFRICAN CONSCIOUSNESS?
HOLY ILLITERACY
CHILDREN OF THE MARGINS
PAMPHLETS WILL NOT SAVE US
BACK FROM THE WOODS
The Assassination of Henry Kissinger • I was wondering if you had a date in mind
Top Ten Reasons to Dislike List Poems
Did You Know?
Blank Generation • A manual for the millennial perennial
American Gothics • The failures of the Trump novel
Belittled Magazine • Thirty years after the Sokal affair
Self vs Rogue Island
Manual Labor • A new generation of deaf writers reimagines language, text, and sound
Glass Octopus
The World’s Memory of the World • Disco Elysium and its fictions
Bafflomathy (No. 81)