By: James Parker

Parker and Valicenti parse Bob Mould’s “Celebrated Summer” solo

By: James Parker

Parker and Valicenti parse Bob Mould’s “Broken Home, Broken Heart” solo

By: James Parker

The dream team — Parker and Valicenti — are back!

By: Joshua Glenn

THE ARGO­NAUT­ICA trans­lated by Joshua Glenn

By: Matthew Battles

Synchronizing a watch on Memorial Day.

By: James Parker

“He’ll pack your gizzard with blizzard, this wizard.”

By: Flourish Klink

THE ILIAD translated by Flourish Klink

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It’s the season for heroes, tricksters, beauties, and devils.

By: Joshua Glenn

Is the thought of a noncapitalist utopia even possible after Stalinism?

By: HILOBROW

“Lots of lowbrows [and] highbrows, I’m telling you the facts”

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In a system that forbids escape and rewrites reality, fantasy becomes realpolitik.

By: Peggy Nelson

Do surrealist games work as algorithms?

By: Danny Fingeroth

Danny Fingeroth locates the point of superhero comics in a 1965 FF panel.

By: Matt Seneca

Matt Seneca finds sensuous formidability in WEIRD MYSTERY TALES (1972)

By: James Parker

Parker and Valicenti parse Young’s “Big Jack” solo.