Everything about the success of this novel depends upon Perdie’s manic voice, sleep-deprived, conspiracy-minded, guilt-ridden, love-starved woman who’s losing her mind and her panties over a 26-year-old roofer who thinks he’s an anarcho-Marxist. roncharles.substack.com/p/the-erotic...

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - Home iaftfita.wildapricot.org

I think I like Drake's new album, also Mohamed Hamika and Al sarah. Excited for this summer music.

‏الحياه مقرفة جدا يا عبد الجبار والغريبه انك لو رفضتها علشان مقرفه هاتبقى مقرفه اكتر حسن سبانخ فى رائعه عادل امام الأفوكاتو

Cowardly Audacity: The Moral Hypocrisy of the Petrodollar Arab Bourgeoisie asnaje.substack.com/p/cowardly-a...

Very interesting! Why is he walking around with a notebook and pen? I thought his AI agent could serve as his paper notebook. :)

Push some of the futuristic elements aside, and the works presented in this collection also feel like ghost stories. Everyone is haunted by memories of a time when things were different, when the alienation wasn’t so extreme, ahmednaji.net/2025/06/24/r...

I didn’t have any money, but I was hungry. So I ordered their new Vertical AI Sushi Roll, which was named “Ocean Vuong.” That’s when I had to wake up. I couldn’t take such a nightmare any longer. asnaje.substack.com/p/literary-s...

Another sharp piece by @coreypein.bsky.social on Saudi and MBS’s latest adventure. I’m glad he catches the personal dimension: Saudi isn’t just a “dictatorship,” it’s a total monarchy where the king’s whims and dreams become national priorities @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/salvos/end-g...

“I am not a culture hound, the only thing that matters to me is to seize life and time, understand, and take pleasure asnaje.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

Everyday We Get More Illegal poets.org/poem/everyda...

I am the white milk dripping out of the global Anglophone holes. asnaje.substack.com/p/on-writing...

A time will come when you will confront each other, and maybe then, you won’t need walls or guns. asnaje.substack.com/p/the-bird

When I sent the author an enquiry, she admitted that she had, in fact, invented the character. He was not real and neither were a number of other “facts” in her footnotes. asnaje.substack.com/p/traps-and-...

ما يريده بعض مثقفي الخليج ليس تبادلًا ثقافيًا، بل نوعٌ من التواطؤ الجمالي: أدب يهادن السلطة، ويغرق في التاريخ والفلكلور، ويؤجل أسئلة الحرية والعدالة. manassa.news/stories/3170...

Very very very good story at last issue of @thedriftmag.com by @nickforetek

She was a married woman, so she would use “a friend of mine” when we were out. One time, we arrived in her car, she sighed and told me, “You go first, and I will follow,” to make it up for me. When I kissed her before getting out, she slapped my cheek the way I like.

"مكان مشمس للأشخاص المشبوهين"؛ هذا وصفُ مدينة دبي الإماراتية عند نيك دونوفان almanassa.com/stories/31623

But don’t you love it when a novelist gives enough of a shit to stick their neck out? wasafiri.org/content/the-...

The first time I visited USA was in 2008, covering the Obama election. Someone--who was 8 years old at the time-- asked me if it was a bad time. -Yes, the market crashed, but hope was covering all walls -I would kill for some hope now -I may disagree, I think despair is more useful, especially now

Someone was telling us yesterday about the Blue Ghost firefly in North Carolina. In May, they emerge and spread through the forest like a carpet of blue light.

‘IN TIME OF PEACE’ — for whom? What does peace mean? Does it mean stockpiling atomic weapons, leased from our lethal unreliable partners in crime? Does it mean the military industrial status quo? wasafiri.org/content/the-...

New book: How We See It The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump asnaje.substack.com/p/new-book-h...

"It seems like too much of a coincidence that Wynn and Jerry both cut their teeth as photographers in the Air Force during World War II." It's like war trume, and society militarization fingerprints are over, under, and inside American culture www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The Profession That Does Not Exist thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Middle East Nuclear Question Begins With Israel thepundit.org/2026/04/25/t...

Chimera - Elegy To a Dead King [UK, acid folk] (1968-69) mournful and dreamy number by the British duo. They were incomprehensibly banned by George Harrison from signing to Apple and the release only came out decades later. P https://redd.it/vxgw6m https://youtu.be/WPvGS1Glj1Y

After reading @coreypein.bsky.social article: thebaffler.com/salvos/dawn-... where he breaks down the U.S. and corporate space strategy, it’s almost funny how the whole thing resembles a cartoonish version of the “evil empire” villains in Western sci‑fi.

Fantastic piece of gaming criticism and reporting exploring why the Saudis are investing so heavily in the industry, and the writing is stellar to boot.

This double Schizophrenia life is the soil from which this novel sprouted. Its ambition is to offer a fictional double image of America… asnaje.substack.com/p/on-writing...

No flags. No slogans. No shots fired into the air. Just a “Privacy Policy” you agree to as you yawn. asnaje.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...

My research was featured by Universiteiten van Nederland & Institutions for Open Societies at Utrecht University. Here I discuss futurisms, SWANA SF, the work of @ahmednaji.bsky.social & my co-edited volume, The Speculative Route. Available in English below. www.linkedin.com/pulse/scienc...

I wanted something a bit more tangible in terms of a case for a better future: what does that look like? Why should U Puerto Rico scholars be there[? lareviewofbooks.org/article/univ...

From the outside, the careers of Faulkner, Kerouac and Kesey look flashy and sudden, but in truth it took one rambunctious editor a lifetime to get them into print and keep them in the canon of American lit chuckpalahniuk.substack.com/p/house-call...

Regime Change in America How Iran's Resistance Is Exposing the Limits of US Imperial Power savageminds.substack.com/p/regime-cha...

What if sand is another form of the verb sin? As in Forgive all my sand, all this sand appears whenever he is near. And when I’m not with him,  sometimes a veritable beach of white sand, pink sand,  black sand appears at the edges of the highway yalereview.org/article/aime...

This “far-right” fantasy operates within an imperial division of labor, enforced through advanced AI killing machines and enormous firepower, all funded by taxpayer money. asnaje.substack.com/p/on-writing...

"Everyone was creative back then. We were all artists who painstakingly painted each individual low-res pixel in MS Paint, crafted clever arguments with the SmarterChild AIM bot, and customized our Neopets and Club Penguin avatars with panache and flair."

The prose is obviously comparable to Eve Babitz in this regard, speedy and desire-honest, but the content is even more so: phaidos.com/articles/ero...

The only thing I regret about my three years of MFA experience is getting involved in the unionizing effort, only to discover in the end that it was all to support this Zionist clown. I am truly ashamed of myself and sorry for anyone I deceived, but this is what Grad Students do.

Cheikh Anta Diop is one of the greatest American Hustlers. What kind of drugs was this dude on while writing all this bullshit about Egyptian and East African history? And why do we have to accept this black American imperial narrative?

There are no official numbers, no names of the dead or injured across the Gulf. But we know enough. They are mostly American soldiers and South Asian workers.

Abraham destroys his father Terah’s idols, Herlingen Haggadah, Vienna, 1725, f. 4v (detail).

Since the dawn of human civilization, some crazy men wanted others to believe they are gods. Throughout human history, many gods died and disappeared, only humans remain.

How to Live in Someone Else’s Body and full in love with the one who stole your body, on McElroy brilliant novel asnaje.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...

And gas costs $5.50 in Las Vegas.

For 2 weeks; @npr.org is speaking with a mysterious Iranian, on the border of Turkey, who is fleeing the war, but when they meet the pretty NPR correspbendint they speak enthusiastically about how happy they are that the USA is bombing their country 🤡 what is the fake clown propaganda guys

The Outrun review – Saoirse Ronan is remarkable in a sensitive recovery drama www.theguardian.com/film/2024/ja...

Cormac vs. Claude: The New York Times shared a quiz asking readers to identify passages from human writers, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Cormac McCarthy, and Hilary Mantel, against AI-written passages on similar themes. Substackers were unimpressed post.substack.com/p/i-just-kep...