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December 2, 2025
Editors’ Note | Millennial Pink
The Editors
It seems likely that future historians — assuming they aren’t just leading us in oral recitation of Simpsons episodes around our post-electric bonfires — will remember 2025 as an inflection point in millennials’ path to power. The year began with JD Vance’s inauguration as the first millennial vice president, and it will end with Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration as the first millennial mayor of New York. In between these bookends, Bari...
December 2, 2025
Domme Song 5 | Poetry
Michael Robbins
Aphrodite’s like sigh what now Sappho, what’s your crazy heart want now? Aphrodite I am seventeen again, I am singing along with the Cure, I’m a bald girl with a big gut in a bad wig. Aphrodite says There are things you’re better off not knowing. Like what says Sappho, brighter and wider than snow. The goddess says Against the lucky Eros plots. And Sappho goes But starships were meant...
December 2, 2025
Domme Song 10 | Poetry
Michael Robbins
This is for every boy who ever picked me last for basketball. I’m lying flat as a fish on the floor of the fast train your apartment becomes when you press your foot into my face. This is for every therapist who ever asked me if I’d made a plan. My plan was to not get locked up by answering that question. I’m practicing mindfulness outside Sonic in a pink...
December 2, 2025
Between the Campo and the City | Venezuelan Communes and the Cost of U.S. Intervention
Pranay Somayajula
In June 2014, a little over a year after the election of President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, global oil prices tanked — and with them the Venezuelan economy, which was then, as now, largely reliant on oil exports. In the years since, inflation has risen so high that over half of its population of 29 million people cannot afford basic provisions. Michael Fakhri, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right...
November 14, 2025
Escape Artists | Romantasy at the End of the World
Daniel Yadin
The women’s names glow like eyes in the dark, staring out at us from the ruins of myth. Feyre Archeron, Celaena Sardothien, Violet Sorrengail, Galadriel Higgins, Phèdre nó Delaunay. Penellaphe “Poppy” Da’Neer, née Balfour, of Castle Teerman. Oraya, plain and simple, like Rihanna or Madonna. These are heroic appellations drawing on a range of Irish, French, Norse, Welsh, Latin, Arthurian, Hellenic, Hebraic, and American influences, all vaguely sounding, with their...
November 13, 2025
A Grotesque Deadlock | Armies Block Aid While Civilians Starve in Sudan
Shahad Elfaki
Since the outbreak of war in Sudan in April 2023, nearly thirteen million people have been internally displaced and prices in Darfur have soared. In El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, basic food items cost more than eight times what they do in other parts of the country. In the mountains of South Kordofan, people resort to boiling grass and leaves to feed their children; in El Fasher, people...
November 7, 2025
Good Health | Fiction
Mimi Diamond
My father rang at lunch: sighed, said it was getting to be a bit much. His girlfriend had broken up with him, he’d been going out too often since. He thought I’d better bring him in. I took a cab to his house and asked the driver to wait, but my father was already trundling his way outside holding a leather overnight bag and waving the cane whose use had...
October 31, 2025
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Shitty Life | Self-Help Gets Philosophical
Erik Baker
Donald Trump’s endeavors in business and politics frequently overshadow his contributions as a philosopher of the futility of human achievement. “We’re here and we live our sixty, seventy, or eighty years and we’re gone,” he reflected to Playboy in a 1990 interview. “You win, you win, and in the end, it doesn’t mean a hell of a lot.” Subsequent winning does not seem to have shaken this conviction. “Nothing matters,”...
October 29, 2025
Porn | Fiction
Nick Foretek
Marissa likes to begin her stories with walks on the beach. The beaches are never idyllic because the travel agencies are always devious. After setting the scene (dusk, iridescent oil slicks on the waves, sand), her characters enjoy a brief stroll before undertaking ferocious sexual intercourse. Marissa encourages the reader to suspect the lovers are siblings, but it turns out they’re just third cousins. In this way, she humanizes the...
October 23, 2025
Bleak and Desolate Shelves | What Starvation Looks Like in Gaza
Abubaker Abed
I left Gaza in April after receiving a scholarship to study in Ireland. I’d delayed leaving for over a year, resistant to the idea of abandoning my family and my country. But I finally decided to go after facing symptoms of acute malnutrition and, as a journalist, continued Israeli threats to my safety. Until then, I’d lived in Deir al-Balah, a city in the center of the besieged territory. Those...
