Archive - Ordinary Beehives

What You’re Allowed to Know

On Zak Jones's Fancy Gap (2026)

May 22 • Justin Hutton Badlam

The Loop Inside the Bracket

On Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot (2024)

May 17 • Justin Hutton Badlam

What Grief Permits

On grief and agency in Lily King’s ‘-Lover(s)’ diptych

May 10 • Justin Hutton Badlam

Time as Solvent

On Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour (2017)

May 4 • Justin Hutton Badlam

April 2026

Discomfort As Form

On George Saunders’ Vigil (2026) and his back catalog

Apr 29 • Justin Hutton Badlam

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