Politics, essays, reviews and fiction (2 stories). All worth reading, much of it two-columned. I learnt about the psychology of trolling, what it's like to be a boy who likes girls and also wants a sex change. My vocabulary has expanded to encompass "dox" and "TERF" (trans-exclusionary radical feminist - "We know what's at work when whites wear blackface; the same thing is at work when men wear drag" - Meghan Morgan). I now know that Valerie Solansas's "SCUM Manifesto" was self-published a year before she shot Andy Warhol, and that SCUM at one point stood for "Society for Cutting Up Men".
"Two weeks in the capital" was too long to impress me. In general the essays/articles were longer than I'm used to, though most included notable phases - e.g. "Capitalism is eating its young. It's only feeding us avocados to fatten us up first"; "personal branding becomes indistinguishable from social life in general" (Gabriel Winant). "Only a generation raised on a diet of gold stars could think that way" (Malcolm Harris).
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