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Current issue, No. 53

Abolish the Senate

Thomas Geoghegan

Only the House is the house of our dreams

Outside the Man Box

Tracy O’Neill

The education of domestic violence offenders

Commodity of Doom

Andrew Marzoni

Elegies for the cigarette

Virtue by the Numbers

Jon Skolnik, September 17

Teaching Them a Lesson

Dalia Hatuqa

Jordan uses the pandemic to crack down on its largest union.

No Man Is an Island

John Semley

Martin Eden rails against the cult of individualism.

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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave

Lorna Scott Fox

Two new translations of a Brazilian Classic.

Treating American Empire

Colette Shade

On providing therapy for agents of state violence.

Landscapes of Memory

Saleem Haddad

Two Palestinian novels confront the ghosts of the Nakba.

The Emperor’s New Rules

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

There’s nothing novel about Netflix’s culture of fear.

Poems

Say Each Day Your Body Wakes Another Body

Robert Fanning

opens inside of you. First fissure, then split, then spread: this body
unfurling thick and heavy-headed as a peony, as. . .

A Conversation Between Women

Jennifer Chang

My friend, who lost her husband
twice, first in death
and then in betrayal, orders
the pinot noir.

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From the Magazine

Current issue, No. 53

Only the House is the house of our dreams

The education of domestic violence offenders

Elegies for the cigarette

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Fiction

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Poems

Fiction