States of Denial Felipe De La Hoz This is garden-variety authoritarianism of the ethnic hierarchy flavor.
Magic Bullets Tyler McBrien Banned for use in war, the hollow point is the bullet of choice for American police.
States of Denial Felipe De La Hoz This is garden-variety authoritarianism of the ethnic hierarchy flavor.
Magic Bullets Tyler McBrien Banned for use in war, the hollow point is the bullet of choice for American police.
Neverending Stories J.W. McCormack We no longer know how to ask for originality because we haven’t seen it lately.
There’s Something Here from Somewhere Else Hanif Abdurraqib I would prefer a different night sky from where I sit. more terror & less eager to be perceived. I would prefer not to have the velocity of my yearning hitched to lamps flickering along the boundless hem of a dark dress, but here I am. I miss you in decades & I miss you ...
Can you believe this notice Robert Frost, Stacy Skolnik Can you believe this notice in the middle of a seating and dining porch it’s literally made for loitering We have this seating area but NO ONE CAN USE IT!!! But I guess for most folks it’s only loitering if they’ve been lingering for hours For me it’s ...
Low Flight Wang Jibing Who prescribes that with wings spread one must fly high Low flight is also a flight With wind rustling like birds’ chirps And wheels speeding like shooting stars The meal delivery note attached to a takeout In clear black and white symbolizes urgency Like a legal document and ...
Neverending Stories J.W. McCormack We no longer know how to ask for originality because we haven’t seen it lately.
There’s Something Here from Somewhere Else Hanif Abdurraqib I would prefer a different night sky from where I sit. more terror & less eager to be perceived. I would prefer not to have the velocity of my yearning hitched to lamps flickering along the boundless hem of a dark dress, but here I am. I miss you in decades & I miss you ...
Can you believe this notice Robert Frost, Stacy Skolnik Can you believe this notice in the middle of a seating and dining porch it’s literally made for loitering We have this seating area but NO ONE CAN USE IT!!! But I guess for most folks it’s only loitering if they’ve been lingering for hours For me it’s ...
Low Flight Wang Jibing Who prescribes that with wings spread one must fly high Low flight is also a flight With wind rustling like birds’ chirps And wheels speeding like shooting stars The meal delivery note attached to a takeout In clear black and white symbolizes urgency Like a legal document and ...
From Instruments for a New Navigation Andrew Mossin ‘The most tremendous and compelling emotion we possesses is the one that forces us to look, to know, if we can, to see.’ Switch on the lights late days you are right to underscore the reasonableness of our ...
Fatigue Performance Noah Falck Music held the middle part of summer as she jump-roped the rain out of the sky. We watched from the car, windows all the way down, the clouds serious, maybe even a bit severe. The air may be a risk for some people, the radio repeated. The air ...
From Opera Fever Chelsey Minnis Darling, it was a single, unsmashed fish tank.. Well, it had the same effect as a lip scar.. Anyway, his voice was like four brandies in the tropics I was on my best behavior that autumn… A poem was pawing at the door..
From Instruments for a New Navigation Andrew Mossin ‘The most tremendous and compelling emotion we possesses is the one that forces us to look, to know, if we can, to see.’ Switch on the lights late days you are right to underscore the reasonableness of our ...
Fatigue Performance Noah Falck Music held the middle part of summer as she jump-roped the rain out of the sky. We watched from the car, windows all the way down, the clouds serious, maybe even a bit severe. The air may be a risk for some people, the radio repeated. The air ...
From Opera Fever Chelsey Minnis Darling, it was a single, unsmashed fish tank.. Well, it had the same effect as a lip scar.. Anyway, his voice was like four brandies in the tropics I was on my best behavior that autumn… A poem was pawing at the door..
Half the Battle Thom Sliwowski Wikipedia’s collective monument to human inquisitiveness is being steamrolled by LLMs.
List and Shout Lydia Kiesling A nihilistic moment will come in which you believe that you hate books.
Half the Battle Thom Sliwowski Wikipedia’s collective monument to human inquisitiveness is being steamrolled by LLMs.
List and Shout Lydia Kiesling A nihilistic moment will come in which you believe that you hate books.
Home City, USA Pooja Bhatia From the perspective of some Haitians, their efforts to resuscitate Springfield are being repaid with hate.
The Path Is Made by Walking Belén Fernández The U.S. border today persists in its long habit of extending itself wherever it pleases.
Home City, USA Pooja Bhatia From the perspective of some Haitians, their efforts to resuscitate Springfield are being repaid with hate.
The Path Is Made by Walking Belén Fernández The U.S. border today persists in its long habit of extending itself wherever it pleases.
The Darkness from the Darkness William Giraldi Suffering maneuvers you to the midpoint between belief and heresy.
The Darkness from the Darkness William Giraldi Suffering maneuvers you to the midpoint between belief and heresy.
A Human Experience Christopher Bell “This is a gift from the Iraqis, this is the farewell kiss, you dog!”
Green Raw Deals Dave Denison, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Maria Lopez-Nuñez Joe Biden’s technocratic environmental efforts excluded needed voices.
A Human Experience Christopher Bell “This is a gift from the Iraqis, this is the farewell kiss, you dog!”
Green Raw Deals Dave Denison, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Maria Lopez-Nuñez Joe Biden’s technocratic environmental efforts excluded needed voices.
The Fruits of Rank Samuel Huneke The unholy alliance between well-heeled gay men and the conservative movement.
The Fruits of Rank Samuel Huneke The unholy alliance between well-heeled gay men and the conservative movement.
Plucking, Primping, and Politicking Aaron Timms Eric Adams leads the Big Apple from the beautician’s chair.
Plucking, Primping, and Politicking Aaron Timms Eric Adams leads the Big Apple from the beautician’s chair.
Georgia’s New Normal Sopo Japaridze Georgia’s path forward cannot be a return to a past that no longer exists.
Georgia’s New Normal Sopo Japaridze Georgia’s path forward cannot be a return to a past that no longer exists.
For Betar or Worse Hannah Gais There are distressingly few paths to challenging Canary Mission and Betar.
What Do I Have in Common with Jews? Avi Ackermann Judaism brings inherited obligation, not hereditary talent.
For Betar or Worse Hannah Gais There are distressingly few paths to challenging Canary Mission and Betar.
What Do I Have in Common with Jews? Avi Ackermann Judaism brings inherited obligation, not hereditary talent.
Maximally Perverse Obscurantism Paul Grimstad There is something basically broken about “Schattenfroh.”
Maximally Perverse Obscurantism Paul Grimstad There is something basically broken about “Schattenfroh.”
Screen Sick Matthew Shen Goodman The history of literacy is a list of complaints. Critics reliably decry each new technological development as an attention-stealing toy. Before recent grousing about ChatGPT, protestations were uttered about the detrimental effects of the internet (fearing endless distraction, ...
Tongue Delirium Jenny Xie The world’s fats & wild offerings! Radial exhalations, shadow & silk! All that rushes through your twinned globes, heating the irises. Keep every phoneme fungible, without weight. Swimming field, no anchor. Let your cries move as thunder ...
Top Ten Reasons to Dislike List Poems Ry Cook Feels like a grocery list. Too many nuts can mess with your tummy. Cutting out syntax from a piece is cutting off its ability to breathe in time. Grind Culture. There was once a child who tried to list everything he saw throughout the day, Parsnips, milk (2%), sushi rice, ...
Screen Sick Matthew Shen Goodman The history of literacy is a list of complaints. Critics reliably decry each new technological development as an attention-stealing toy. Before recent grousing about ChatGPT, protestations were uttered about the detrimental effects of the internet (fearing endless distraction, ...
Tongue Delirium Jenny Xie The world’s fats & wild offerings! Radial exhalations, shadow & silk! All that rushes through your twinned globes, heating the irises. Keep every phoneme fungible, without weight. Swimming field, no anchor. Let your cries move as thunder ...
Top Ten Reasons to Dislike List Poems Ry Cook Feels like a grocery list. Too many nuts can mess with your tummy. Cutting out syntax from a piece is cutting off its ability to breathe in time. Grind Culture. There was once a child who tried to list everything he saw throughout the day, Parsnips, milk (2%), sushi rice, ...
Battle of the Sexes Jasper Craven Pete Hegseth’s long-running war against women—inside the military and out.
Uniform Policy Jennifer C. Berkshire Was there ever a time when American schools weren’t bound up with the economy?
Poem Abraham Adams Light burns the books of light. They hang a black wreath on the page, a door snowed shut. Stars spaced like cries at night, the words of wind in fire’s ink, fill up the lungs’ black skies. Eyes in the words shine back. The voice in letters like light in an ...
Auto Icon Sasha Burshteyn “My body I give to my dear friend Doctor Southwood Smith to be disposed of in a manner hereinafter mentioned . . .” —from the will of Jeremy Bentham, 30th of May, 1832 Sam, I am in a box watching the centuries pass. There’s a round object on the floor between my ...
Battle of the Sexes Jasper Craven Pete Hegseth’s long-running war against women—inside the military and out.
Uniform Policy Jennifer C. Berkshire Was there ever a time when American schools weren’t bound up with the economy?
Poem Abraham Adams Light burns the books of light. They hang a black wreath on the page, a door snowed shut. Stars spaced like cries at night, the words of wind in fire’s ink, fill up the lungs’ black skies. Eyes in the words shine back. The voice in letters like light in an ...
Auto Icon Sasha Burshteyn “My body I give to my dear friend Doctor Southwood Smith to be disposed of in a manner hereinafter mentioned . . .” —from the will of Jeremy Bentham, 30th of May, 1832 Sam, I am in a box watching the centuries pass. There’s a round object on the floor between my ...
Take a Picture It’ll Last Longer Natalie Shapero The old world is dying and the new world is actually also concurrently dying; it’s not a good time. I heard they were able to laser off your tattoo of a ten-point spread; was there any discussion of keeping it and lasering you off instead? I’m just checking. I’m just ...
In which the morning after, a boy’s body had been dismembered Adedayo Agarau To God who made me, the clouds move toward us on that field. It has just rained & the street is flooded again. A boy whose face I do not remember has been dancing in the rain & has now caught a cold. We gather around him as good friends do & because he sneezes, we ...
Loose Exegesis Alina Stefanescu And how the pros sparkled! I thought I’d play this game best when playing my betters. Up close to the net, pivotless, I felt myself most alive when being slaughtered. Everyone saw the shame, how swiftly it came to its descendant. Dark heirs then cookies in a star tin. I ...
Dolphins Stephanie Burt Princes, unready to rule France or anywhere else. No, they are glossy, all-too-human marine mammals, unable to communicate with their captors, till the intrepid children set them free at the climax of the film. Some wish they were whales, able to find their ...
Take a Picture It’ll Last Longer Natalie Shapero The old world is dying and the new world is actually also concurrently dying; it’s not a good time. I heard they were able to laser off your tattoo of a ten-point spread; was there any discussion of keeping it and lasering you off instead? I’m just checking. I’m just ...
In which the morning after, a boy’s body had been dismembered Adedayo Agarau To God who made me, the clouds move toward us on that field. It has just rained & the street is flooded again. A boy whose face I do not remember has been dancing in the rain & has now caught a cold. We gather around him as good friends do & because he sneezes, we ...
Loose Exegesis Alina Stefanescu And how the pros sparkled! I thought I’d play this game best when playing my betters. Up close to the net, pivotless, I felt myself most alive when being slaughtered. Everyone saw the shame, how swiftly it came to its descendant. Dark heirs then cookies in a star tin. I ...
Dolphins Stephanie Burt Princes, unready to rule France or anywhere else. No, they are glossy, all-too-human marine mammals, unable to communicate with their captors, till the intrepid children set them free at the climax of the film. Some wish they were whales, able to find their ...