This past weekend I went to chicago with some friends for the car seat headrest concert. The show was great but that’s more of a me thing — what I will talk about is the city itself, which was also great! It’s like an oasis of brick and steel in the midwest, at least that’s…

An original cover for the novel The City & The City by China Miéville, which I’m currently reading. I find the central premise of two cities superimposed on top of each other, all the while demanding to be kept distinct, to be a really evocative allegory for apartheid. Originally published back in 2009, it obviously…