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Thurston Moore

A founding member of the avant-garde noise rock group Sonic Youth from 1981–2014, Thurston Moore is the publisher of Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal and...

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A short history of guns in America

FictionThe first firearm was the Chinese fire lance, a gunpowder-filled bamboo tube first depicted on a tenth-century silk banner from the Gansu Province in Western China. Early incarnations of the fire lance were used mainly for shock value in melees – the weapon little more than a glorified firework attached to a spear.

Musique concrète

InterviewThe original brutalism is the projection, in concrete, of strong social ideals. It’s also the architectural sedimentation of a given period: the hopeful ’50s up to the ’70s. But to me more personally, it’s a totally alien form of architecture: in my hometown, most of the buildings are small and made of wood. So raw concrete, sign me up! I was hooked very early on: I remember very fondly some of the brutalist buildings in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from my travels in Canada as a kid.

Hummingbirds in the forest of needle and blood

PoetrySay there is a boy in a village. Say the boy is not always a boy, but today he is. Say he is wandering...