Fiction
John Waters: 'Why Is the Gay World Fighting With Each Other?'
Ahead of his Barbican show, the cult director and author talks about political correctness, bad taste and "Liarmouth", his debut novel.
'The Service’ Captures the Messy and Mundane Realities of Sex Work in the UK
Writer and activist Frankie Miren discusses her debut novel and the need for more complex accounts of what it feels like to be a sex worker.
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Drones to Ploughshares
In a near future, a surveillance drone serving an authoritarian state is captured—and offered a new lease on sentience.
The Installation
A horrifying, dystopian science fiction short that imagines the future of big pharma.
The Department of Suicide
In a white concrete cell, a doctor from the DoS sat across a plastic table and questioned Catherine Gabriel as to why she had chosen misery over standard-issue happiness.