Every Issue of Flaming Hydra

Reading fundamentalist

Maria Bustillos on the defense of Western Civ

Auto-tune autocrat

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún explains the coming political meme

Tidings of the season

A sestina from Sam Thielman

Final insult

Jennie Rose Halperin traces the poisonous roots of celebrity culture

Swedish sparkles / A hopeless position

Diana Moskovitz takes a break in Stockholm; Amy Chu at the Boston Palestine Film Festival

Be a pal

It doesn’t really matter what you call it, says k.e. harloe

Above the fray

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd at a billionaire’s election watch party

Longtime listener / Believe in books

John Saward on the tribe of Mike Francesca, and Maria Bustillos on saving libraries

Laughable leadership / Wretched results

Jídé Salawu on Nigerian tomfoolery, and a poem on this day by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

Pull the lever / Feel the change

Hydras on the ballots; dread and loveliness with Luke O’Neil

Protest, vote

Jonathan M. Katz and Maria Bustillos on the Tuesday of our discontent

Brawl and response / Really racist

Tommy Craggs on ultra-violence in the NBA; Arwa Mahdawi reviews ‘The Message’

Corrupted image / Journalistic integrity

David Roth’s identity issues; Parker Molloy on the Bezos fracas

Bullheaded memory

Into the maze with Zito Madu

Money talks / Yankees prevail

Tom Scocca considers Bezos’s cowardice; John Saward on the agony of baseball

Spooky civic spirit

Ooh, scary!

Subtle signals / Blaring warnings

Ana Marie Cox is lying down and Trevor Alixopulos is sleuthing

Losing the terrain / Breaking into comics

Carrie Frye with Asheville updates, and Denny O'Neil’s last-ever interview, with Josephine Riesman

Shelf portrait

An L.A. afternoon with Maria Bustillos

Hard bargains / Restricted browsing

Jídé Salawu buys some things, and so does Shirley Wang

Bonded by minibus

Different ways to get married, by Yemisi Aribisala

Running away

Luke O’Neil reckons with wildness and decay

Up from the depths / Wash like a man

Allegories with Jennie Rose Halperin, and new fiction from Miles Klee

AI grave robbers / Office agony aunt

Talia Lavin on real forever loss, and Rax King on Ask a Manager

Embittered sweets / Rebuilding Babel

Delectably complex pie from Emily Flake, and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún on AI translation

Rustic retreat / Soft, savory treat

Hamilton Nolan, survivalist; Laurie Woolever, also surviving (on party food)

Moved to mortification

Images of self-harm, considered by Sam Thielman

Float your boat / Stretch your prose

Anna Merlan on a funerary hack for dating apps; Colin McGowan reads Robert Coover

Protective Papers

Parker Molloy on enduring the coming month

Empty battery / Out of shape

At the beach in New York with David Moore; doubts considered with Amy Chu

The ship goes adrift

Ben Ehrenreich on the news

All-night movies / Unlimited parking

Zito Madu's not sleepy; Miles Klee dreams of malls

Refuse mortality / Recall yesterday

Ceremonial practices of Myriam Gurba, and Trevor Alixopulos remembers

Ruled by chance / Social insects

Watermelons, randomness, Arwa Mahdawi; Joe MacLeod looks out the window

Casual pals / Strict borders

Kola Tubosun visits London, and Carrie Frye on the realest of friends

The voice of authority

Dystopic comforts from Luke O'Neil

Hyperlinked humanity / The rubble of home

Nerding out with David Moore; a young woman's life in Gaza, by Moh Telbani

Some are reading

Yemisi Aribisala reflects on the dangers of the reading life

Touch the heavens / Face the lens

Amy Chu holds pieces of clouds; evolving self-imagery from Jennie Rose Halperin

American hero

Josephine Riesman on 9/11 and Uncle Sam

Unspeakable feed

Some things Sam Thielman saw on the internet

Self, publishing / Turing texts

Laurie Woolever on the jitters; Scocca and Bustillos refuse styrofoam

Tiny cuts / Final fantasy

Sharp remarks from Diana Moskovitz, and Sam Thielman exits, pursued by a beast

Public access internet / Distant Belle

Freenets at the library with jj skolnik, and John Saward visits his old room

Special delivery / Animal urges

A.J. Daulerio on dot-com indulgence; Brian Hioe contemplates desire

Audience capture

Tom Scocca on tomscocca.com, and READERS’ CHOICE poll results

Sign the guestbook

Arwa Mahdawi on the kinder gentler internet

Elf friends / Transit strangers

Rax King waxes fantastical and Trevor Alixopulos stands clear of the closing doors.

Leisure pains / Missing rains

Joe MacLeod hurts himself and Luke O'Neil burns low.

Jewish skinhead

Ryan Gosling in a revelatory early role, by Josephine Riesman

Clear your mind of questions

Miles Klee, internet mystic

Solidarity of the separated / Verse on the mobile phone

Brian Hioe on friends; Salawu on the olden times for poetry

Invisible book burning / Secret rhythm

Riot and ruin

Ben Ehrenreich goes for a run in the outskirts of Norwich

Enter the chat / Freezing hot

Dairy queen / Borrowed trouble

Unseen soul mates / The neighborhood mass murderer

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd's Usenet; Yemisi Aribisala on Naomi Campbell

Fill in the blank / Guess what's torrenting

Gold-decked gymnasts / Gold-mouthed mummies

The adolescent internet / Maternal gourmet

Strong weird

featuring Sam Thielman

Big-screen lowlifes / A year without school

Crisp and chilly

Demonstration project / Pounding parental pride

Free, wild, and smelly / Testicle bird

Midway to November / Feel a little better

Links rotted

Indelible text / Clear-headed revels

In the open field

Flower metal / Country pride

Seriously funny / Neglected shelves

Joyful contempt / Essential anger

Summer stillness

Uncaring and ubiquitous / Esteem shovel

The face of terror / When rats ran rampant

Frame and reputation

Frozen animals

Ripped from the headlines / Conjured from the colonizers

Otherworldly line

Plastic history / Present future

Customer service

Who's your crawdaddy / Games over

Changing lingo / Preserving fruit

The big media payback

Presidential plans / Literary laundry

Speaking distinctively / Baking dramatically