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Current issue, No. 50

We Keep You Alive

Lizzie O’Shea

Unskilled labor does not exist

Misery Makers

Whitney Curry Wimbish

The arch-goons of private equity

An Open Letter to Leon Cooperman

Dave Denison

We detect the rank smell of class warfare

Robert the Late Modernist

Daniel Felsenthal, March 23

No Thanks!

Colette Shade

Against gratitude as a therapeutic practice.

Stepping Up

Whitney Curry Wimbish

As government leaders bungle the coronavirus response, there's hope in mutual aid.

Online

Assimilationists of a Feather

Elliot Friar, Travis LaCouter

Old politics lurk underneath chic new packaging.

He Doesn’t Have a Plan for That

Timothy Faust

Joe Biden’s health care solution is a remix of failed ideas.

The Visible Man

Soraya Roberts

Invisibility and Platonic justice in the #MeToo era

A Dismal Jubilee

Bruce Robbins

Rashid Khalidi’s new book surveys a century of imperialism and resistance in Palestine.

Poems

Love Poem

Nathan McClain

The tennis match was still on
and while some watched, some sat around
and shucked oysters, cut them from their shells,. . .

Each Morning Again

Rose McLarney

As store windows are darkening and displays
are taken down—that is when she walks home,
tired.

Fiction

The Octopus Dilemma

Ned Beauman

The terms of the bet declared that for every ten seconds under sixty seconds it took the diver to wrestle the octopus out of. . .

It Takes A Village Some Say

Ngwah-Mbo Nana Nkweti

Fabrications. Rag sheet revisionist history. All of it. We did our best by Our Girl.

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From the Magazine

Current issue, No. 50

Unskilled labor does not exist

The arch-goons of private equity

We detect the rank smell of class warfare

Online

Elliot Friar, Travis LaCouter

Poems

Fiction

Online

Elliot Friar, Travis LaCouter

Online

Poems

Fiction