The Culture We Deserve Janna Shaftan The only thing that can be preserved is what we hold onto past the point of reason.
Red Noir Harilaos Stecopoulos Sensitivity to the downtrodden informs the work collected in the new edition of Jim Thompson’s oeuvre.
The Culture We Deserve Janna Shaftan The only thing that can be preserved is what we hold onto past the point of reason.
Red Noir Harilaos Stecopoulos Sensitivity to the downtrodden informs the work collected in the new edition of Jim Thompson’s oeuvre.
Country-Fried Ulster Oliver Eagleton Northern Ireland wants to emulate the worst parts of Texas—and the American South more broadly.
The Moral of the Story Suzanne Rhodenbaugh Would we were all randy pinto ponies, free on a plain and green, sniffing each other’s little asses and licking what we liked, rolling our fat dandy haunches in the new-mown hay, dragonflies buzzing our soft, soft ...
Time Lapse Adam J. Gellings I like a good distraction, pulled from a river, bound in fishskin. They applied a yellow alert this Sunday for the wind & for all those who will eventually face it. Be careful: that which you go searching for you just might find. Turns out he was a leader with the iron ...
Olive Oil Boy Edward Salem But if I had a kid, I’d want her to be Palestinian all the way. I always say I’m not going to be a slave to a baby for what, ten years, twenty? But if I was going to be a slave to anyone, I’d want it to be a Palestinian baby. After my sister had a kid, she spent a good ...
Country-Fried Ulster Oliver Eagleton Northern Ireland wants to emulate the worst parts of Texas—and the American South more broadly.
The Moral of the Story Suzanne Rhodenbaugh Would we were all randy pinto ponies, free on a plain and green, sniffing each other’s little asses and licking what we liked, rolling our fat dandy haunches in the new-mown hay, dragonflies buzzing our soft, soft ...
Time Lapse Adam J. Gellings I like a good distraction, pulled from a river, bound in fishskin. They applied a yellow alert this Sunday for the wind & for all those who will eventually face it. Be careful: that which you go searching for you just might find. Turns out he was a leader with the iron ...
Olive Oil Boy Edward Salem But if I had a kid, I’d want her to be Palestinian all the way. I always say I’m not going to be a slave to a baby for what, ten years, twenty? But if I was going to be a slave to anyone, I’d want it to be a Palestinian baby. After my sister had a kid, she spent a good ...
States of Denial Felipe De La Hoz This is garden-variety authoritarianism of the ethnic hierarchy flavor.
States of Denial Felipe De La Hoz This is garden-variety authoritarianism of the ethnic hierarchy flavor.
The Profession That Does Not Exist Baffler Symposium Writing itself can serve as a form of spiritual recovery from the labor that funded it.
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 ...
The Profession That Does Not Exist Baffler Symposium Writing itself can serve as a form of spiritual recovery from the labor that funded it.
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 ...
A Human Experience Christopher Bell “This is a gift from the Iraqis, this is the farewell kiss, you dog!”
A Human Experience Christopher Bell “This is a gift from the Iraqis, this is the farewell kiss, you dog!”
Rent Check Opera Francis Northwood Freezing the rent only alleviates tension on one side of the equation.
Ceding Ground Ali Winston When it comes to the NYPD, Zohran Mamdani doesn’t seem to mind the status quo.
Rent Check Opera Francis Northwood Freezing the rent only alleviates tension on one side of the equation.
Ceding Ground Ali Winston When it comes to the NYPD, Zohran Mamdani doesn’t seem to mind the status quo.
A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist Portraying the Artist Adrian Nathan West This offers itself as revelation.
March into the Ruins Bruce Robbins Kluge always wanted to give people, and the principles to which people try to be faithful, some extra lift.
A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist Portraying the Artist Adrian Nathan West This offers itself as revelation.
March into the Ruins Bruce Robbins Kluge always wanted to give people, and the principles to which people try to be faithful, some extra lift.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Yugoslavia Calling Lily Lynch “The Yugoslav Wars never ended, they just entered into global circulation.”
Yugoslavia Calling Lily Lynch “The Yugoslav Wars never ended, they just entered into global circulation.”
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.
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, ...
Self vs Rogue Island Sawako Nakayasu Put your hands up, says the island. I look around but it is still just me and the island. I meekly raise my hands a little, slightly higher than before—is that enough? All the way up, you little nitwit. This foul-mouthed island is nothing like the ones in the ads. It’s also ...
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, ...
Self vs Rogue Island Sawako Nakayasu Put your hands up, says the island. I look around but it is still just me and the island. I meekly raise my hands a little, slightly higher than before—is that enough? All the way up, you little nitwit. This foul-mouthed island is nothing like the ones in the ads. It’s also ...
Battle of the Sexes Jasper Craven Pete Hegseth’s long-running war against women—inside the military and out.
The Path Is Made by Walking Belén Fernández The U.S. border today persists in its long habit of extending itself wherever it pleases.
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 ...
Battle of the Sexes Jasper Craven Pete Hegseth’s long-running war against women—inside the military and out.
The Path Is Made by Walking Belén Fernández The U.S. border today persists in its long habit of extending itself wherever it pleases.
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 ...
