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Current issue, No. 57

The Long Brutality

Keisha N. Blain

Black women and the struggle to end police violence

When the Party’s Over

Brendan O’Connor

Organizing after Bernie

Free and Worldly

George Scialabba

Louis Menand’s questionable pantheon of Cold War–era luminaries

Late-Stage Fairytales

Matthew King, June 3

Old Master

Dustin Illingworth

On the life and afterlife of the Bernhardian monologue.

Applejacking

Michael Wasiura

Short fiction by Michael Wasiura.

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The Eye of the Beholder

Shivani Radhakrishnan

Encounters with art in Second Place and beyond

The Cop Did It

Matt Hanson

Powerful citizens are usually above suspicion.

A Fierce and Violent Land

Sergio González Rodríguez

An excerpt from Sergio González Rodríguez’s “El hombre sin cabeza.”

New Problems, Old Ideas

Roman Gressier

Nayib Bukele dismantles El Salvador’s fledgling democracy.

Poems

textinction

Andrei Codrescu

something I made up in the mirror of enmeshed languages survived briefly then died in my lifetime

What I Saw at a Frozen Creek

Su Hwang

shallow enough, close to thaw, the ice beginning to fissure like latticework bowed: a teensy fish, tadpole maybe, wiggling in. . .

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From the Magazine

Current issue, No. 57

Black women and the struggle to end police violence

Organizing after Bernie

Louis Menand’s questionable pantheon of Cold War–era luminaries

Online

Poems

Fiction

Online

Online

Poems

Fiction