By Queen Mob

Lauren Alyssa Howard

The Menagerie

/ Judson Hamilton / Fiction
It was then that I moved into the barracuda phase. At first I had considered making a bear but it was just too warm-blooded and could conceivably be ‘cuddly’ or ‘cute’. I didn’t want cute - I wanted to instill terror in those that looked on this head, to paralyze them with fear. So I chose the barracuda which is just about the most terrifying head ever invented by nature.

Sight Unseen: Purity

/ Ain’t It Gruel News / Misc
Holy shitballs… the movie of the book, man… and Franzen guest stars!

CONTROL AND SUICIDE Part Two

/ Grant Maierhofer / Media
The conclusion of Grant Maierhofer's essay on Anton Corbijn's biopic

Ask Avant: Avant Schools You

Poems: Jeff Encke

Happy 409th Birthday Edmund Waller!

/ Queen Mob / Poetry
That which her slender waist confined/Shall now my joyful temples bind

Totality

POEMS: Clay Ventre

To Bring You My Love At 20

/ Eve Johnson / Media
Celebrating two decades of PJ Harvey's third, and possibly best, album

Amalia Ulman: Stock Images of War

/ Queen Mob / Media
  Video trailer for artist Amalia Ulman’s solo exhibition Stock Images of War, which opened at […]

CONTROL AND SUICIDE Part One

/ Grant Maierhofer / Media
An examination of Anton Corbijn's biopic of Ian Curtis and suicide

Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015

This Beach Is Me

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
I would like to write the rose-colored beach and the pearly ocean. And it is February.

Twenty-Seven Theses

POEMS: Michael Lambert

Putin Test II: Vladimir Savich

/ Queen Mob / Interviews
This question could beget phantasmagoria in the style of the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. I’m reminded of his story, The Nose, about the collegiate assessor Major Kovalyov.

POEM: Sean Kilpatrick

Sight Unseen: Funny Games 2

/ Queen Mob / Misc
And the question remains: did we do something wrong to end up alive?