Issue 9
| February 28, 2023

From the Editors

Editors’ Note|Circling the Drain

“There’s a Lot More That Needs to Be Done”|An Interview with Barbara Smith

SILENCED

Words Exchanged|Italophone Somalia, Then and Now

After the Fatwa|Losing Faith in Salman Rushdie

Shiny Objects|The Koh-i-noor, Rishi Sunak, and the Aesthetics of Anticolonialism

Pranay Somayajula

All Roll Is B-Roll|Adam Curtis Goes Quiet

SURVEILLED

The View from Jeju|Behind Nancy Fraser’s Hidden Abodes

Electric Bodies|Medical Technology Takes Over

Posed Riddles|Seeing Through Empathy with Diane Arbus

FICTION & POETRY

Summer People|Fiction

Thrown|Fiction

Indians Can’t Fly|Fiction

Magogodi oaMphela Makhene

On Snowfall|Poetry

Heartbreaking Breathtaking|Poetry

Bóín Dé|Poetry

Timothy Donnelly

Latent Heat|Poetry

New History|Poetry

DISPATCHES

RIP Good Times|On the Future of Big Tech

Annie Rauwerda Ben Tarnoff David Adler David Ethan Jones-Krause Jane Chung Jeannette Estruth Jordan Coley JS Tan Lora Kelley Sophie Haigney Tarpley Hitt

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue Nine

Issue 8
| November 1, 2022

From the Editors

Editors’ Note|Hindsight Is 2020

“Feels Like Life”|An Interview with Barbara Kruger

Monsters

Fetal Rites|What We Can Learn from Fifty Years of Anti-Abortion Propaganda

Just Beans|What Was Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism?

But What I Really Want to Do Is Write!|The Year of the Auteur Novel

Hanson O’Haver

Mortals

America’s Son|Who’s Afraid of Hunter Biden?

Against Queer Presentism|How the Book World Neglects the Archive

Colton Valentine

Controlled|Annie Ernaux and the Millennial Sex Novel

Fiction & Poetry

Tiny Beasts|Fiction

Ayla Zuraw-Friedland

Very Polite|Fiction

Percival Everett

Arrangements|Fiction

War Kink|Fiction

Four Stories|Fiction

Three Poems|Poetry

Natalie Shapero

Coin|Poetry

The North|Poetry

Tomaž Šalamun

Explicit, 1976|Poetry

Iphigenia in Aulis as Crystallography|Poetry

Dispatches

“A Painfully Precise Measure of the Climate Movement’s Power”|On the State of Climate Activism

Ama Francis Annie Crabill April Zhu Arvin Alaigh Chanelle Adams Charlene Wang Daniel Sherrell Emma Hager Erin O’Brien Hannah Hunt India Logan-Riley Jack McCordick Jake Bittle Johnathan Guy Josh Lappen Marcela Mulholland Vince Cooper Zoya Rehman

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 8

Issue 7
| June 14, 2022

From the Editors

Editors' Note|Gloom and Doom

"A Catastrophic Loss of Faith in America"|An Interview with Pankaj Mishra

Gloom

Sick to Our Stomachs|Why Does Everyone Have IBS?

A Star Is Born|Raffi Gessen-Gould's Examined Life

Scenes from a Crisis|Selfishness Switches Genders

Not-So-Magic Kingdom|Disney Takes on Affordable Housing

Doom

All in the Family|Amy's Kitchen and America's Shadow Workforce

The Air We Move Through|Rhetoric, Bureaucracy, and the Immigration Debate

Beyond "Hate"|Evading the Carceral Trap of Asian American Grievance

The Audacity of Nature Docs|What Barack Obama's Our Great National Parks Leaves Out

Everything Has Changed|Green Capitalism and the Climate Left

Fiction & Poetry

The Patriotic Hat|Fiction

Alec Niedenthal

Hollywood Tours|Fiction

All Kinds|Fiction

Hannah Kingsley-Ma

A Fable|Poetry

The Fool|Poetry

Emily Skillings

Groom XII|Poetry

Isabel Duarte-Gray

Poem in Which I'm Called Unknowable Despite Near-Constant Nudity|Poetry

Kindall Fredricks

Polytopes|Poetry

Dispatches

"Here Comes the Break"|On Literary Fiction Today

Alexandra Kleeman Andrew Martin Christian Lorentzen Clare Sestanovich Gabriel Smith Hannah Gold Lucie Elven Missouri Williams Sanjena Sathian Tope Folarin

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 7

Issue 6
| January 31, 2022

From the Editors

Editors' Note|Good Lord

"Justice at the Necessary Scale"|An Interview with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Progress

What Was the TED Talk?|Some Thoughts on the “Inspiresting”

My Ancestral Home, the Mall|Lil Miquela’s Post-Racial Society

Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot|Against the Contemporary American Essay

Those Who Know|Exterminate All the Brutes and the Limits of Rewriting the Narrative

Recurrence

Vibe, Mood, Energy|Or, Bust-Time Reenchantment

Joke’s on Them|The Democratic Party Meets Rural America

A Little Spectrum-y|What the Autism Diagnosis Says About You

College Debt |USC and the Problem of the Private University

Fiction & Poetry

Couture|Fiction

The Complete|Fiction

Untranslatability|Fiction

If Only Someone Would Get Aquinas in Here|Fiction

Missouri Williams

A History of Pigs in America|Fiction

White Men Are the End of a Black Woman’s Youth|Poetry

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

bye|Poetry

Nothing Like the Sun|Poetry

Dispatches

"Steered by the Reactionary"|What To Do About Feminism

Alexandra Brodsky Andrea Long Chu Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Becca Rothfeld Elisa Gonzalez Jamie Hood Jess Bergman Rosemarie Ho

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 6

Issue 5
| September 27, 2021

From the Editors

Editors' Note|Eighteen Months

"A New Form of War"|An Interview with Samuel Moyn

System

Stuffing Ourselves|Amazon, the USPS, and the Tyranny of Logistics

Truth and Consequences|Documentaries and the Art of Manipulation

Blair McClendon

Invested Development|Hacking Ethiopia's Future

Dead Poet Anxiety|John Ashbery in the Age of Social Media

David Schurman Wallace

Failure

XOXO, Ruling Class|Gossip Girl, The O.C., and the New Gilded Age

Case Sensitive|Why We Shouldn't Capitalize "Black"

Nicholas Whittaker

Persistence Pays|A Young Readers' Report

Like a Colossus|Ben Rhodes Goes Looking for Democracy

Fiction & Poetry

Parent Trap|Fiction

Essay|Poetry

The Sun Sets, Input Not Detected|Poetry

Dispatches

"Left in the Dark"|Covid Behind Bars

April Harris Christopher Blackwell Corey Devon Arthur Darla Jones Felix Sitthivong Joel Castón Olethus Hill Jr.Patrick Stephens Wesley Williams

"Determined to Wait"|Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Around the World

Carey Baraka Meher Ahmad Nicole Froio Pamela Maddock Peter Vale Tryggvi Brynjarsson Zoey Poll

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 5

Issue 4
| May 6, 2021

From the Editors

Editors' Note|Party Time

"A Radical Demonstration of 'America First'"|An Interview with Adam Tooze

Frontiers

The End of the Road|Nomadland, My Mother, and the Frontier's Broken Promise

Mitchell Johnson

The ISIS Beat|Why Caliphate and Everyone Else Got It Wrong

The Translation Trap|Latin American Literature and the International Market

Eternity Now!|Jeff Bezos's 10,000-Year Plan

Interiors

Fiction Detective|On Literary Citation and Search Engine Sleuthing

Other People's Despair|Mending the Social Fabric Won't Fix the Suicide Crisis

Good Immigrant Novels|Jhumpa Lahiri and the Aesthetics of Respectability

Sanjena Sathian

A Jerusalem of the Mind|Academic Freedom After Edward Said

Personal Hell|The Climate Anxiety Novel

Rithika Ramamurthy

Fiction & Poetry

Objects of Desire|Fiction

Clare Sestanovich

The Underlying Issue|Fiction

The Late Year|Fiction

Real Estate: Fables|Poetry

Adrienne Raphel

Dispatches

"An Impossible Feedback Loop"|The Year in Mental Health

Andy Hyatt Anne Larsen Anonymous contributors Beth Blum Brianna Suslovic Jess Bergman Mike Rosmann Rachel Connolly Şerife Tekin Tarpley Hitt

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 4

Issue 3
| February 3, 2021

From the Editors

Editors' Note|The First But Not the Last

"A Punishing American Zeitgeist"|An Interview with Nikhil Pal Singh

Hard Truths

Doctor Do-Little|The Case Against Fauci

The Land Was Ours|Trump, Biden, and Public Lands

New Sheriff in Town|Law Enforcement and the Urban-Rural Divide

Not All Millennials|Generational Wealth and the New Inequality

Comforting Fictions

How To Be Oblivious|Complacency and Doom in Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind

The Original Karen|Colonial Nostalgia and Nairobi’s Out of Africa Industry

A Pool of One's Own|Group Biographies and the Female Friendship Vogue

First-Person Shooter Ideology|The Cultural Contradictions of Call of Duty

Strong Female Leads|The Reese Witherspoon Literary Canon

Fiction & Poetry

Mr Blythe Esq.|Fiction

[A Moment Breaking Loose from the Past Becomes the Voice Inside Your Head]|Poetry

Dispatches

"Speak to the Moment"|Art under Trump

Blair McClendon Jenny G. Zhang Matt Christman Merve Emre Rosemarie Ho Sasha Frere-Jones Sophie Haigney Tausif Noor

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 3

Issue 2
| October 21, 2020

FROM THE EDITORS

Editors' Note|A Feature, Not a Bug

"Naming the Work"|An Interview with Silvia Federici

HIDDEN

"Different Experiences with the Data"|DC's Covid Math

Losing Count|The Sordid Business of Bookkeeping

First World Problems|The Politics of Development Aid in Britain

Our Friend Angela|Soviet Schoolchildren, a Letter-Writing Campaign, and the Legend of Angela Davis

Yana Skorobogatov

IN PLAIN SIGHT

Bringing It Back to Baldwin|Myth, Memoir, and America’s Racial Reckoning

A Note from the Fireline|Climate Change and the Colonial Legacy of Fire Suppression

Art after Objecthood|Self-Consciousness from the Minimalists to the Present

The DJ and the Miracle Cure|The Perils of Postcolonial Medicine in Madagascar

American Accident|All the Presidents' Movies

Rebecca Panovka

FICTION & POETRY

Tell Me About the Weather|Fiction

Sarahana Shrestha

And Who Would You Prefer Told the Story?|Poetry

Sasha Debevec-McKenney

Bullets|Poetry

DISPATCHES

"Stratified and Fragmented"|Teaching and Learning in a Pandemic

Andrew DiPrinzio Bix Archer Bryan Bejarano Chet Ozmun Dylan Hardenbergh Emily Tian George Duoblys James McAsh John Tormey Julia Martins Juliette Bretan Kiva Uhuru Lucas Cassoli Mia Wood Shoaib Shafi Tryggvi Brynjarsson

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 2

Issue 1
| June 24, 2020

FROM THE EDITORS

Editors' Note|Now More So Than Ever

"A Worldwide Mutual Pact"|An Interview with Wendy Brown

NOT ABOUT THE PLAGUE

#MeToo's Strike Test|Harvard's Union Campaign and the Limits of "Time's Up" Organizing

Capitalist Pigs|Pork Farming Meets Zombie Science

Nothing to Apologize For|Samantha Power’s Bosnia Syndrome

Krithika Varagur

Far-Flung Commiserators|Jubilee Gestures and Revolutionary Stirrings in Black Lives Matter

Party Politics|The Last Days of Queer Club Culture

What's Going On|The Racist History of "Night Life" in The New Yorker

ABOUT THE PLAGUE

Drug Money|The Race for a Vaccine

The Cure and the Disease|Social Darwinism from AIDS to Covid-19

Chaos, Aggregated|A Pandemic Novelist Takes to Twitter

Madeline Conway

Nature's Revenge Porn|Animal Documentaries in a Pandemic

Rebecca Panovka

FICTION & POETRY

Grosseto|Fiction

The Lotus on Marina Bay Speaks|Poetry

DISPATCHES

"More Precisely Revolution"|Notes from the Protests Worldwide

Deshawn McKinney Henry Shah Kaamya Varagur Lily Bou Shaj Mohan Zuneera Shah

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 1

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