Book of the Month · October and November 2026
A Turin writer investigates a forgotten wave of nocturnal killings and a citizens' "Library" of confessions, an allegory of Italy's Years of Lead and state terror.
Open the entry →Movie of the Month · October and November 2026
A Montreal model becomes obsessed with the trial of a man accused of filming the torture of three girls for the dark web.
Open the entry →Current Academic Work · October 2026
Reads the sound design of Lucrecia Martel’s Zama (2017) as “auditory ruination,” a sonic uncanny built from the weird and the eerie in Mark Fisher’s sense. The film strips the colonial administrator of psychological mastery and exposes the foundational paranoia of the imperial enterprise.
An Article a Day · Oct 18
A review of Vollmann's A Table for Fortune, a four volume novel that follows a CIA analyst through decades of American intelligence and the road to the Iraq War.
The Paranoid Reading List · 1,404 entries on file
A one stop reading list for the parapolitical, the paranoid and the Marxist. Fiction to conceive the deep event, non-fiction and the academic record to document it, and film to watch it play out. Pick a format, then filter by year, keyword, author or director.
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Fiction is how the deep event gets conceived before it gets documented. Paranoid novels, noir, weird fiction, dystopias, the modernists and the poets.
The conspiracy thriller, the political cinema of the Years of Lead, the documentary record and the television that understood the system.
The documentary shelf: covert action, Gladio, the CIA, fascism, organized crime, empire, and the Marxist theory to read it all with. Graded by kind of evidence.
Peer reviewed papers, parapolitical journals, investigative reportage and the press record, from the 1990 Gladio revelations to now.
Podcast & Author companion reading listsEach entry carries a flair for the lists it appears on
The TrueAnon listener reading list: Gladio, the CIA, the Kennedys, dark money, Epstein, and the right's own texts read to be recognized.
A literary list of modernist novels, late British modernist poetry, philosophy and parapolitical history.
Matt "Cushbomb" Christman's recommendations as ranked by listener votes: Reconstruction, the American right, Gladio and the big novels.
The Eyes Wide Open YouTube reading list: JFK, Allen Dulles, blackmail and Epstein, the drug trade and the CIA, and the Asian wars.
The 4th Reich Archaeology podcast list: Nazi postwar networks, the CIA and the deep state, JFK, Dugin, Land and Yarvin read to be recognized, and the empire cycle theorists.
The favorite books of William T. Vollmann, from his 1990 interview with Larry McCaffery and his 1993 list in the Review of Contemporary Fiction: Mishima, Tolstoy, Hawthorne, the sagas and the poets.
The bleeding edge reading list of reporter Ali Winston: policing, surveillance, the war on terror, Los Angeles, the far right and the novels that frame them.
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