An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.
We are now proud to announce our upcoming second issue, Anti-Sisyphus. Pre-order on our webstore today.
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In our inaugural issue of original essays, fiction, poetry, and art, we explore how technology impacts the human condition.
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by Sean Bonney. It’s all visible now. Everything. It’s just that all the meanings have changed, and the names no longer apply. We lean against walls, our hands over our faces, and watch the parade. We are naked and frightened.
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by Matt Broomfield Cover photo courtesy of the poet. off the shoulders of the front lines there are mothers stirring great big pots of beans to feed the solid-bellied women in the killing machine off the shoulders of the frontlines there are families displaced three times each time in the rotting belly of a…
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by Tyler Walicek. Big structural Bailey. Over the last few days, these words have come to haunt me. The phrase tolls in my head, an incantation that conjures no spell but my own bafflement. It’s ingenious in its complete vacuity. Big. Structural. Bailey.
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by Jimmy Wu. Class is back on the big screen. From Sorry to Bother You to Joker, the past year has seen an explosion of popular movies that offer, with varying degrees of coherence, a critique of contemporary capitalism. But perhaps no recent film does so with more savvy than Parasite, a new genre-bender that became the first Korean movie to win the Palme d’Or.
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by Jamie Hood. Let me try again. We know this story. A girl wanders alone in a wood. A path, unencumbered.
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‘Scary Stories’ is set in a past haunted by the Vietnam War, made for adults haunted by eternal remixes of their youth, and aimed at a future straining to reconcile the ghosts of its past. The film winds up nostalgic for a past no one experienced. It’s a product of a larger struggle to imagine our way out of an absent future.
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by Morgan Dowdy we shouldn’t be here but we are precisely here in this groove of the rock at the electrified edge of the yard chewing gum and shutting down Dead canaries litter the park Feathers all bloody and black Death in the vacant lot (Mamma…
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by Sarah Sturgis It’s summer and we’re playing soccer with a red rubber ball in the front when Max starts to do the thing he does when I’ve scored more goals than him. It’s the same frustrated look he’d get when he was a baby; his smile shrinks into a squinched-up line, and he pushes…
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by A.M. Gittlitz Cover image by Peter Henshaw. All other photos courtesy of the author. In the Pampas, the vast prairies of southern Latin America, there’s a tale that stretches back to colonial times: the legend of the luz mala, or the bad light. It appears just above the ground, in the hills, or in…
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Apparently, some people do not take kindly to an ostensible progressive letting her hair down with the primary enabler of America’s torture program. Can’t a wealthy liberal hang out with her war criminal friend in peace?
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