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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

Ways of Knowing

Edna Bonhomme, May 5

Between a Rock and a God Place

Theo Whitcomb

Rural Oregon’s war on the homeless.

The Visions of Henry Dumas

John Keene

On a genre-breaking forerunner of Afrofuturism.

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All Quiet on the Eastern Front

Sarah Aziza

Joe Biden follows Trump’s footsteps in Saudi Arabia.

Social Justice Tourism

Jaime Chu

A tech travelogue set in rural China obfuscates material conditions

Lush Life

Elias Rodriques

Thulani Davis's poetry conjures a lost era of jazz.

Mutant Meter Maids

Ryan Bradley, Alex Sherman

On LA parking and the corporate takeover of municipal functions.

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.

Fiction

The Necromancer’s Driver

Reuben Dendinger

A new short story by Reuben Dendinger.

In This World You Have to Sell Something

Carley Gomez

Sister Helene swings her baseball bat across Richard’s dresser and shards of decorative junk fly everywhere in the vast bedroom.

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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

Ryan Bradley, Alex Sherman

Poems

Fiction

Online

Online

Poems

Fiction