The Children of the Dragon Issue

It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To

Photos by Francesco Nazardo, stylist: Ian Bradley. Full story

Skinema

No Warning 6: The Unfair Advantage

If you're going to watch only one hardcore, anal-raping, lesbian-wrestling porno this year, make it "No Warning 6." The hardcore is harder! The anal is more anally! Full story

The Last Exorcist

Satan Is Don Gabriele Amorth’s Sniveling Bitch

In his book, Don claims "the devil himself, speaking through a possessed woman, threatened to disembowel me in my sleep." Full story

If You Build It, They Will Cum

Sexual Healing and Kinky Community Outreach with the Impropriety Society

The Impropriety Society's parties started as theatrical sex-themed fund-raising events, but as they evolved, actual fucking came to the fore providing a place for a variety of kinky persuasions. Full story

The Learnin' Corner

Topological Matter in Optical Lattices

This month's Learnin' Corner is an explanation of topological matter in optical lattices by University of Pittsburgh associate professor of physics W. Vincent Liu. Full story

A Few from ‘Stories’

Photographer Jacob Aue Sobol transforms everyday interactions into moody compositions that make everything he shoots look like a snapshot from some harrowing WWII tale. Full story

Three Chapters from The Loom of Ruin

It's with great pride that we present to you three chapters from Sam McPheeters' first novel about a gas-station owner named Trang Yang, who has a fondness for violence. Full story

Toupee

Hello Again, Asshole

Fucking Medicine Man. Fucking dumb old hippie buzzard! Telling me shit I could have told myself 100 times. Full story

Sheppard’s Video Game Pie

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

"Revelations" is a decrepit continuation of a once-captivating franchise, which is appropriate given that it's about the aging of its two protagonists, Ezio and Altaïr. Full story

Il-Sung Songs

Photos by Ben Ritter, Stylist: Annette Lamothe-Ramos Full story

Peeling Oniontown

Unraveling the Many Layers of New York’s Most Reclusive—and Feared—Community

There are certain places that seem forsaken. Afghanistan is one. Another lies outside the bucolic little Hudson Valley hamlet of Dover Plains. It's a place called Oniontown. Full story

Biking Booth’s Escape Route

Retracing the Long-Cold Tracks of Lincoln’s Assassin

After slaying Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth spent 12 days on the lam in a strange and tragic odyssey. To ever truly understand him, I'd have to literally retrace his footsteps. Full story

The Cute Show Page!

Baby Wombat Orphans

We whipped out this photo of a wombat and our associate editor Harry was paralyzed in an alternating laugh/awwww/laugh/awwww stupor for three whole minutes. Full story

Schizophrenia Not Caught on Tape

The Way Hollywood Portrays Mental Illness Is Just Crazy

To get a read on how accurate Hollywood's portrayal of mental illness is, I asked four gentlemen diagnosed with schizoaffective disorders to watch some films that feature "crazy" characters. Full story

The Wonderful Asshole

Gary Indiana Won’t Grease It Up for Anyone

I never really thought I'd end up writing anything about Gary Indiana; I just wanted to meet him. Full story

Bob Odenkirk’s Page

Clearing the Park Full story

Front of the book

We live in contentious, troubled times: Millions are out of work, protestors fill the streets of practically every major city, the global financial system is in ruins, and just about everyone feels disenfranchised. Full story

Employees of the Month

We asked Paige to write us a short bio, and this is what she sent: "My name is Paige Aarhus and I am a freelance writer and photographer in Africa. Full story

Carbon Copies

Monette and Mady Are the Swingingest Twins in Paris

Identical twins always attract a peculiar type of attention, but these gals were walking mirrors. Their uniformity was uncanny. Full story

Cambodian Couture

It’s Literally to Die For

The Wild West of the East wants to be known for something other than mass murder and landmarks made of human skulls. That's why in November Cambodia hosted its first-ever fashion week. Full story

Unveiled

Inside the Homes and Lives of Saudi Women

In Saudi Arabia, I was invited into a world rarely visited by outsiders--one that is considered off-limits and impenetrable--to lift the abaya and niqab and meet the women underneath. Full story

Going Down with the Brown

Milk, Milk, Lemonade, Around the Corner Fudge Will Murder You

Crap has already declared war, and it's winning. Behold just a few of the innumerable examples of how shit can kill. Full story

The Mungiki, the Taliban, and Me

Getting to Know Kenya’s Most Dangerous Gangsters

The Mungiki are not only Kenya's most violent and notorious mafia/cult/political movement, they might be the largest gang in the world. Full story

Records

And this is the way music should sound. Like the hottest, toughest girl drove you somewhere on her three-wheeler and now you're getting slow-fucked by a nitrous-filled dildo. Full story

Comics

The Beverly Douchebillies

Do not look directly into the swamp rat's freshly-douched vagina. Full story