Egypt’s Carceralocracy Collective Antigone In Egypt, untold thousands of people have been imprisoned for the “crime” of merely criticizing their government.
Back from the Underworld Brandon Shimoda The person who has fallen farthest from community might still be one worth saving.
The Fear and the Fix Jason W. Moore How mainstream environmentalism fell under the sway of benign reformism
Egypt’s Carceralocracy Collective Antigone In Egypt, untold thousands of people have been imprisoned for the “crime” of merely criticizing their government.
Back from the Underworld Brandon Shimoda The person who has fallen farthest from community might still be one worth saving.
The Fear and the Fix Jason W. Moore How mainstream environmentalism fell under the sway of benign reformism
In the Twilight Zone Pooja Bhatia The current immigrant experience is less that of an invading Democratic foot soldier and more of a buffeted member of the precariat.
In the Twilight Zone Pooja Bhatia The current immigrant experience is less that of an invading Democratic foot soldier and more of a buffeted member of the precariat.
Blue Ruin K. Biswas On October 24, 2022, in Committee Room 14 of the Palace of Westminster, Sir Graham Brady, MP for Altrincham and Sale West and chairman of the influential 1922 Committee, announced to Conservative Party colleagues that they had chosen Rishi Sunak to become their next leader. ...
The Crack-Up Chris Lehmann John Ganz’s new history of the far-right insurgency in the early nineties.
Blue Ruin K. Biswas On October 24, 2022, in Committee Room 14 of the Palace of Westminster, Sir Graham Brady, MP for Altrincham and Sale West and chairman of the influential 1922 Committee, announced to Conservative Party colleagues that they had chosen Rishi Sunak to become their next leader. ...
The Crack-Up Chris Lehmann John Ganz’s new history of the far-right insurgency in the early nineties.
Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare Benjamin Balthaser Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism is a conscious throwback to Cold War liberalism.
Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare Benjamin Balthaser Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism is a conscious throwback to Cold War liberalism.
Taking T for Jesus Maud Newton Sometimes you just need a little help to perform your God-given gender more perfectly.
Taking T for Jesus Maud Newton Sometimes you just need a little help to perform your God-given gender more perfectly.
Divided and Conquered Astra Taylor If we stopped talking about racism, sexism, the LGBT community, and immigrants, would that mean we could finally break up the banks?
Courting Disaster Max B. Sawicky Originalism is just a dodge for right-wing judges to impose their own policy preferences.
Divided and Conquered Astra Taylor If we stopped talking about racism, sexism, the LGBT community, and immigrants, would that mean we could finally break up the banks?
Courting Disaster Max B. Sawicky Originalism is just a dodge for right-wing judges to impose their own policy preferences.
We Owe Each Other Everything Kaila Philo A new book charts the rise, fall, and afterlife of Black Christian Nationalism.
Teenage Dreams Dustin Illingworth Ungovernable change and unexpected grace in the graphic novels of Charles Burns.
We Owe Each Other Everything Kaila Philo A new book charts the rise, fall, and afterlife of Black Christian Nationalism.
Teenage Dreams Dustin Illingworth Ungovernable change and unexpected grace in the graphic novels of Charles Burns.
Beautiful Plan of Your Future Ed Park In those days, perhaps, having found no earthly readers, I was writing mainly for the aliens.
My First Review Arielle Isack Abandon hope, all ye whose hours of daily screen time are in the single digits.
Beautiful Plan of Your Future Ed Park In those days, perhaps, having found no earthly readers, I was writing mainly for the aliens.
My First Review Arielle Isack Abandon hope, all ye whose hours of daily screen time are in the single digits.
Biden’s Final Humiliation David Klion The mass killing in Gaza is the one aspect of Biden’s legacy that can’t be erased.
Doctors Without Politics Mary Turfah The enemies of life are the people who kill innocent people for reasons we call “politics.”
The Failure of Liberal Zionism David Klion Israel has behaved exactly as its harshest critics predicted.
Biden’s Final Humiliation David Klion The mass killing in Gaza is the one aspect of Biden’s legacy that can’t be erased.
Doctors Without Politics Mary Turfah The enemies of life are the people who kill innocent people for reasons we call “politics.”
The Failure of Liberal Zionism David Klion Israel has behaved exactly as its harshest critics predicted.
Memories of Charles Street John Yau My father loved to leave me in a movie theater by myself beginning when I was six seated alone by the aisle He paid the usher a dime to make sure no one kidnapped or molested me Michael Ansara, Jeff Chandler, and Ruth Roman were my cartoon heroes living and ...
Misfire Adam J. Gellings My one good eye continues to have the last laugh; it has no other company; once considered a perceived threat: it has since been removed off the X but from time to time still levels with the clumsy cataracts of the widowed key-maker: my one good eye follows the crow’s feet ...
Fig. Funto Omojola if joy is a politics of citation, then my mother doesn’t break down into anything if joy is a politics of citation, then in my palms, wombs. then my mother’s tongue slurping slurping bone canal lig ament lig a ment lament me. i mean head tilted back slurping slurping ...
Memories of Charles Street John Yau My father loved to leave me in a movie theater by myself beginning when I was six seated alone by the aisle He paid the usher a dime to make sure no one kidnapped or molested me Michael Ansara, Jeff Chandler, and Ruth Roman were my cartoon heroes living and ...
Misfire Adam J. Gellings My one good eye continues to have the last laugh; it has no other company; once considered a perceived threat: it has since been removed off the X but from time to time still levels with the clumsy cataracts of the widowed key-maker: my one good eye follows the crow’s feet ...
Fig. Funto Omojola if joy is a politics of citation, then my mother doesn’t break down into anything if joy is a politics of citation, then in my palms, wombs. then my mother’s tongue slurping slurping bone canal lig ament lig a ment lament me. i mean head tilted back slurping slurping ...
University of Hindutva Nevin Kallepalli Hindu supremacist organizations are coming for American college campuses.
Extremely Online and Incredibly Tedious Rhian Sasseen “Brat” reads like a c. 2010 Tumblr page spat up by the Wayback Machine.
University of Hindutva Nevin Kallepalli Hindu supremacist organizations are coming for American college campuses.
Extremely Online and Incredibly Tedious Rhian Sasseen “Brat” reads like a c. 2010 Tumblr page spat up by the Wayback Machine.
Waiting at Anchor Laleh Khalili Waiting has always been woven into the everyday rhythms of seafarers’ work and lives aboard.
Waiting at Anchor Laleh Khalili Waiting has always been woven into the everyday rhythms of seafarers’ work and lives aboard.
Park of Prospects Eric Dean Wilson In a city with a premium on movement, curious things happen to those who stand still.
Human Velocity Frankie de la Cretaz A conversation with Michael Waters, the author of “The Other Olympians.”
Park of Prospects Eric Dean Wilson In a city with a premium on movement, curious things happen to those who stand still.
Human Velocity Frankie de la Cretaz A conversation with Michael Waters, the author of “The Other Olympians.”
Spectacle of Justice Jared Olson The conviction of Juan Orlando Hernández won’t change anything in Honduras.
Permanent Crisis Zachary Siegel We need a stronger, more expansive paradigm for understanding the exponentially increasing number of overdose deaths.
K-Pop Dan Piepenbring “The toes, fingers, and ears are thrilling with all the feelings of musical vibration.”
Spectacle of Justice Jared Olson The conviction of Juan Orlando Hernández won’t change anything in Honduras.
Permanent Crisis Zachary Siegel We need a stronger, more expansive paradigm for understanding the exponentially increasing number of overdose deaths.
K-Pop Dan Piepenbring “The toes, fingers, and ears are thrilling with all the feelings of musical vibration.”
Nuclear War Zan de Parry At the university there is a mysterious course In which a black & white film begins with war And ends with a dog biting a ball A student says she’s reminded That the human body is mostly water Another says she’s reminded Of the sermon Van Gogh wrote on a ...
Poem Inspired by Everything Anselm Berrigan I would just like to point out, but I always end up pointing in. “Everyone’s holier than thou! & I’m definitely rolling the dice!” a camo-clad gent w/ dork beer a good sixteen fiats away exclaims—just as I was measuring how to use inkling in a work: this report ...
Clytemnestra Cynthia Zarin Sky streaked with azure and bloodred. No wind. No oar. That memory swift-hooved, tramples itself, the cart wheel rutting in the ditch as if the spokes would turn backward. That ...
Nuclear War Zan de Parry At the university there is a mysterious course In which a black & white film begins with war And ends with a dog biting a ball A student says she’s reminded That the human body is mostly water Another says she’s reminded Of the sermon Van Gogh wrote on a ...
Poem Inspired by Everything Anselm Berrigan I would just like to point out, but I always end up pointing in. “Everyone’s holier than thou! & I’m definitely rolling the dice!” a camo-clad gent w/ dork beer a good sixteen fiats away exclaims—just as I was measuring how to use inkling in a work: this report ...
Clytemnestra Cynthia Zarin Sky streaked with azure and bloodred. No wind. No oar. That memory swift-hooved, tramples itself, the cart wheel rutting in the ditch as if the spokes would turn backward. That ...
From Fall Creek Lyn Hejinian Time past tumult-fodder getting wet by the ton plummets up the sky dispersing wild syllables an anarchy of storming signs into systems that can’t be understood for a simple reason that everything is participating loftily or low invading the public sphere with swaggering ...
[…] Fady Joudah The gods have spoken. The gods said nothing. All our clamour sounded the same. Your window is closing, they said, they didn’t say on what. I am not a window, I said, I am the view. The window was on the ground floor. The ground was grass. The room had a working ...
Flight Attendant, Duy Đoàn To land this position, you have to be able to talk to ducks. Actual ducks. Ducks over the horizon, ducks at the end of a bottle, ducks that if they were strewn out at the edge of a pond at night and you saw them in a bit of light would trigger your phobias. Ducks on drugs. Ducks ...
While Listening to Bach’s Double Violin Concerto in D Minor Anna T. Szabó The order. The order of drifting clouds, tree crowns, bending grass in the breeze, the descent and swirl of windblown petals, the hiss of reeds, the friction and whisper of green bamboos, the gyration of yellow pollen on the road, the order of an exploding storm, the imprint of ...
From Fall Creek Lyn Hejinian Time past tumult-fodder getting wet by the ton plummets up the sky dispersing wild syllables an anarchy of storming signs into systems that can’t be understood for a simple reason that everything is participating loftily or low invading the public sphere with swaggering ...
[…] Fady Joudah The gods have spoken. The gods said nothing. All our clamour sounded the same. Your window is closing, they said, they didn’t say on what. I am not a window, I said, I am the view. The window was on the ground floor. The ground was grass. The room had a working ...
Flight Attendant, Duy Đoàn To land this position, you have to be able to talk to ducks. Actual ducks. Ducks over the horizon, ducks at the end of a bottle, ducks that if they were strewn out at the edge of a pond at night and you saw them in a bit of light would trigger your phobias. Ducks on drugs. Ducks ...
While Listening to Bach’s Double Violin Concerto in D Minor Anna T. Szabó The order. The order of drifting clouds, tree crowns, bending grass in the breeze, the descent and swirl of windblown petals, the hiss of reeds, the friction and whisper of green bamboos, the gyration of yellow pollen on the road, the order of an exploding storm, the imprint of ...
Just Say Yes Matthew Shen Goodman You can trace the liberalizing contours of the American public’s relationship to drugs by way of the last few presidents’ consumption habits. Clinton famously didn’t inhale, only willing to admit to touching reefer in England. Before his religious reawakening at forty, ...
Pain and Suffering Ann Neumann The extraordinary power of opium products to alleviate pain is complicated by the language of addiction.
American Rehab Donald Morrison Waiting has long been a defining feature of addiction treatment in Oregon.
Just Say Yes Matthew Shen Goodman You can trace the liberalizing contours of the American public’s relationship to drugs by way of the last few presidents’ consumption habits. Clinton famously didn’t inhale, only willing to admit to touching reefer in England. Before his religious reawakening at forty, ...
Pain and Suffering Ann Neumann The extraordinary power of opium products to alleviate pain is complicated by the language of addiction.
American Rehab Donald Morrison Waiting has long been a defining feature of addiction treatment in Oregon.
