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.
La Vida Loca Martin Dolan Even as the stories gets dark, Jaime Hernandez’s linework maintains a tangible lust for life.
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.
La Vida Loca Martin Dolan Even as the stories gets dark, Jaime Hernandez’s linework maintains a tangible lust for life.
Maximally Perverse Obscurantism Paul Grimstad There is something basically broken about “Schattenfroh.”
The NAFTA Novel Nicolás Medina Mora The postnational literature these writers produced was not a roadmap to a more just future.
Maximally Perverse Obscurantism Paul Grimstad There is something basically broken about “Schattenfroh.”
The NAFTA Novel Nicolás Medina Mora The postnational literature these writers produced was not a roadmap to a more just future.
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.
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.
Ceding Ground Ali Winston When it comes to the NYPD, Zohran Mamdani doesn’t seem to mind the status quo.
Ceding Ground Ali Winston When it comes to the NYPD, Zohran Mamdani doesn’t seem to mind the status quo.
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 ...
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 ...
Magic Bullets Tyler McBrien Banned for use in war, the hollow point is the bullet of choice for American police.
Happy Birthday, Mr. President Jasper Craven, Brian Karlsson Trump threw a big birthday party for himself—oh yeah, and the U.S. Army.
Magic Bullets Tyler McBrien Banned for use in war, the hollow point is the bullet of choice for American police.
Happy Birthday, Mr. President Jasper Craven, Brian Karlsson Trump threw a big birthday party for himself—oh yeah, and the U.S. Army.
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 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 ...
States of Denial Felipe De La Hoz This is garden-variety authoritarianism of the ethnic hierarchy flavor.
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.
States of Denial Felipe De La Hoz This is garden-variety authoritarianism of the ethnic hierarchy flavor.
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.
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.
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 ...
Glass Octopus Matthew Zapruder the mesopelagic touches the underside of a boat my father dreamed he built I turned his fortune into a sturdy vessel that churned through countless waves to the place where everything is equidistant then in the chamber of a lowered diving bell through thick glass suddenly ...
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 ...
Glass Octopus Matthew Zapruder the mesopelagic touches the underside of a boat my father dreamed he built I turned his fortune into a sturdy vessel that churned through countless waves to the place where everything is equidistant then in the chamber of a lowered diving bell through thick glass suddenly ...
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 ...
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 ...
