INSIDE: An Opening Salvo on Neko Case’s Last Lion of Albion and the Queen // Free Speech Film Fest // Abortion cartoons by Pulitzer Prize-winner Signe Wilkinson // a cri de coeur on letting kids fail by a Philadelphia school teacher // recommendations to keep your turntable and bookshelf from being a failure with BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered, Aphorisms for Artists, and Beatles in Bossa from Minas // Dustin Hockensmith on why we never win at sports and Diana Lu on why our banana pudding game is the GOAT // an exploration by Walter Foley about why we need mass cultural events such as the Philadelphia Folk Fest // a provocative question about whether Christianity has failed by new contributing editor Matthew Burdette // an in-depth exploration of financial and societal collapse by editor Heather Shayne Blakeslee featuring work by Ada Trillo and the novels of Ken Kalfus and Lionel Schriver // Photography by Andrew Pinkham // Poetry by Matthew Buckley Smith and Ezra Pound // Art by John Opdyke // and John Muldowney on not tearing it all down
