This week’s edition highlights stories by Peter Flax, Abigail Edge, Jesús A. RodrÃguez, Henry Wismayer, and Elif Batuman.
Astra Magazine
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The Dirt on Pig-Pen
“His character was scribbled over, shaded, covered with specks…And yet — what was that dirtiness?”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, our editors recommend stories by Eric Borsuk, Aaron Gell, Laurie Penny, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Will Rees.
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Notes From the Underground
In an essay for Astra Magazine, Zack Graham recounts the inaugural descent into the rave underground — through a warehouse door in Queens — and subsequent brushes with rave culture abroad, notably in Vienna, among partiers of the Freetekno movement. My body moved in ways I’d never thought possible. The track unleashed a creature inside […]