Clare Coffey

Essay | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

Who Wants to Believe in UFOs?

Strange things in the skies of a clockwork universe

Essay | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

Things Used to Work in This Country

An appliance used to be a machine. Now it’s a bureaucracy.

Review | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

Nature, Toothless and Declawed

Martha Nussbaum’s dubious case for animals as liberal subjects

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

The Joy of Losing Your Phone

App life has freed us from the kindness of strangers. Is it any wonder we feel so alone?

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

Driven Apart

Contrary to the myth of the open road, in real adulthood we go somewhere and get there slow.

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

How to Make Friends

Fighting the system may take a while. Why not go to a bar?

Review | Fall 2019

Fall 2019

On the Monster Beat

Why the civic needs the weird

Review | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

Modernity’s Spell

Why debunking mesmerism only made it stronger

Review | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

The Joy of Cryptozoology

The case for exploring the cognitive hinterlands

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Who Wants to Believe in UFOs?

Things Used to Work in This Country

Nature, Toothless and Declawed

The Joy of Losing Your Phone

Driven Apart

How to Make Friends

On the Monster Beat

Modernity’s Spell

The Joy of Cryptozoology

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