Mentioned in Issue Seventeen
DJ Alan Cumming, jai alai on Instagram, and a new coterie of oafs and cretins
In Moby-Dick, Ishmael famously says that the sperm whale enjoys “an unwritten life.” A new study of the mighty creatures’ communication, however, finds “close parallels in the phonetics and phonology of human languages.” With that in mind, we’d like to hedge our bets and extend a warm welcome to any and all cetacean readers of The Drift. We hope that in Issue Seventeen’s extremely abbreviated reviews — of Infinite Jest’s thirtieth anniversary edition, the en dash, Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua’s boxing match, and more — you find delight enough to stay your inscrutable malice.
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This is a sport where spandex-decked buffalos of men shed single tears while American flags unfurl and F-16s roar overhead.