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Current issue, No. 51

Care Package

Jonathon Sturgeon

The Other Guy Being Socialism

A. S. Hamrah

The sick wreck of capitalism is here

Family Care for All

Ann Neumann

Supporting the work that makes all other work possible

A Clean Break

Clare Busch, May 26

Slicker Cities

Saritha Ramakrishna

On the entrepreneurial turn in city government.

Alternate Histories

Wen Stephenson

In 1944, another Democratic Party was possible.

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Meditations in an Emergency

Maddie Crum

Worker writers take stock of a world reshaped by coronavirus.

Gatsbys of Our Time

Matt Hanson

On Fitzgerald’s novel and eternal American myths.

An Asset Grows in Brooklyn

John Kazior

On New York’s efforts to quantify and exploit the “eco” dollars out of every living cedar, oak, ash, and pine.

A Pretty Penny

Jennifer Schaffer

Two new novels set in contemporary East Asia look unsparingly at wealth and beauty.

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. 51

The sick wreck of capitalism is here

Supporting the work that makes all other work possible

Online

Poems

Fiction

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Poems

Fiction