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Bad Lieutenants | Molly Matalon with Charlotte Shane

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By Charlotte Shane, Adrian Van Young, Webb Wright Verified
| The Baffler Verified
It is the nature of authority to court its deflation. Centuries of pornography devoted to the debasement of nuns, priests, and royals testify to as much. American cops aren’t exactly aristocracy, but few other professions come with a gun and the prerogative to act with near impunity: a chilling privilege that warrants, if not demands, neutralization. “Go ahead, call the cops, I’ll have sex with them!” declares a favorite meme of mine.
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Extreme Makeover, Gothic Edition

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By Adrian Van Young
| Southwest Review
“A Catskill varmint hotel turned quaint summer cabin. A half-charred farmhouse hiked up on carjacks overhauled into a popular farm-to-table restaurant. A haunted gingerbread with a basement full of graves, exorcised and revitalized as a church. A successful career by any measure. Four decades of hard work Vic Greener’s family can look back on with pride,” writes Harris Lahti with characteristic fragmented eloquence toward the end of his excellent debut novel, Foreclosure Gothic (Astra House, 2025).
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Mouse Song | Yongyu Chen

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By Yongyu Chen, Christos Ikonomou, Rafia Zakaria, Adrian Van Young
| The Baffler Verified
After the dream of a white bed topped with a pool of water, where in that dream I took photos of the white bed & the water, look at the crushed flowers afloat in the water . . . that same night I dreamt I was a child again, I threw a fit, I rolled on the carpet of the governmental office, in front of both officials, I beat my water bottle on the ground last in line at the close of day, they skipped me though Sing with me, sing with me the mouse song . . .
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