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Announcing Our New Editor in Chief,
Matthew Shen Goodman

The Baffler

February 24, 2023

The Baffler magazine, America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism since 1988, has appointed Matthew Shen Goodman as its new editor in chief. Shen Goodman comes to The Baffler from Triple Canopy, where he served as senior editor ...

Chronicles of Deaths Foretold

Artur Domosławski

August 23, 2022

The military’s extrajudicial killings in Colombia.

Hard to Be a God

Joshua Craze

August 04, 2022

A new history of deification suggests that political power is always mythological.

Raging for the World That Is

Francesca Wade

July 27, 2022

Muriel Rukeyser’s political activities were inextricable from her literary experimentation.

El Alto Chronicles

Ruxandra Guidi

July 18, 2022

Quya Reyna is a young Aymara writer who casts a light urban indigeneity in Bolivia.

For God or the Moroccan Boy?

Jacob Israël de Haan

June 29, 2022

Jacob Israël de Haan explored the intersection of queer desire and spiritual belief.

Colombia’s Historic Pact

Steven D. Cohen

June 28, 2022

On the victory of Gustavo Petro Urrego and Francia Márquez Mina.

Blues and Roots

John Washington

June 14, 2022

On the many faces of Charles Mingus.

Palais Intrigue

James Wham

June 08, 2022

For all its cash-flashing and celebrity worship, Cannes still offers moments of possibility.

Out in the Street

Lisa Hsiao Chen

June 01, 2022

Tehching Hsieh defiantly foregrounded his own vulnerability.

Speaking of Memory

Ágnes Heller

May 19, 2022

How do we remember what we remember?

A Violent Enterprise

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce 

May 11, 2022

British colonialism casts a long shadow over modern Nigeria.