Contents

Totentanz

Thomas Frank, Dave Mulcahey, Conor O'Neil

01 /Essays

What Does the Internet Look Like?

Christine SmaLLwood

Serfmg the Net

Astra Taylor

No Logo Update

Naomi Klein

TheO-Word

Michael Lind

A Cottage for Sale

A . S. Hamrah

Indispensable Men

Yves Smith

The Un - usable Past

Walter Benn Michaels

Journals of the Crisis Year

Moe Tkacik

Motor City Elegy

Will Boisvert

The Eighteenth Brumaire of

Michael R. Bloomberg

Ryan Ruby

King's Row

Jim McNeiLL

The Mix - Tape and the Auteur

WiLL Schmenner The People , No

Henry Fairlie

4 02 /Columns

Poetry Slam

Dan KeLLy

Let Them Eat Dogma

Chris Lehmann

8 Lost on Nelson Algren Avenue

Mike Newirth

20 Blood Drive

Matt Taibbi

30

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03 /Fiction

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The Failed Plot to Assassinate Our Leader 166

54 by Three Men, All Subsequently Deceased

Paul Maliszewski

66 Jimmy Carter's Rabbit

Lydia Millet

174

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84 Poetry

This Is

96 Rae A rmantrout

24 Zones

Oevin Johnston

Exercise

110 JackSpicer

65 Race

Inauguration

[If I had invented 65 Thomas

homosexuality ... ] Sayers ELLis

116 JackSpicer

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120

Art

125

Simon Norfolk

13 John Miller

81

Joel Sternfeld

27 James Griftioen 103

Jules Spinatsch 40 Angie Wailer 127