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Protean Magazine

An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

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  • Online Features
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Cover of Road to Nowhere.

Review: Paris Marx’s Road to Nowhere

By: Protean Magazine June 29, 2022June 29, 2022
Reviews

Matthew J. Seidel reviews Road to Nowhere, the new book from Paris Marx on fantastical and farcical big-tech transit schemes and how they have substituted for the public good.

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Reviews
Karen Revis's Nina Simone prints.

Still Breathing

By: Protean Magazine June 19, 2022June 19, 2022
Critique & Essays

In this essay from Protean’s third print issue, now online, Kimberly Bain reflects on grief and memory: on the still-resonating echoes of Emmett Till’s death and his mother’s cry, on Nina Simone, on Black mourning across historical time.

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Critique & Essays
Cover of The Disenchanted Earth.

The Disenchanted Earth: An Interview with Richard Seymour

By: Protean Magazine June 16, 2022June 16, 2022
Interviews

Samuel McIlhagga interviews Richard Seymour, author of The Disenchanted Earth, on socialism and degrowth, the ecofascist threat, and envisioning a planetary, humanist “re-enchantment.”

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Interviews
A wooden carving by Hannah Halpern.

The Seven-Week Abortion

By: Protean Magazine June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
Critique & Essays

Brianna DiMonda shares creative nonfiction from the perspective of a narrator who has undergone a routine abortion—attesting to the fact that, discomfort notwithstanding, the procedure is an inestimably crucial right.

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Critique & Essays
Turner painting of London on fire.

The Road to Brighton Pier: Class, Caste, and the British Left

By: Protean Magazine June 6, 2022June 7, 2022
Critique & Essays

With an eye to Orwell’s “The Road to Wigan Pier,” Samuel McIlhagga writes on the class codes of British diction and the incestuous tangle of the U.K. elite, who preside over a hidebound power structure and decaying institutions.

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Critique & Essays
A hyperdimensional fractal render.

[Rant] Stop judging transdimensional entities for what’s between their legs

By: Protean Magazine May 31, 2022June 1, 2022
Fiction

Riley Tao shares a humorous piece of speculative fiction on the workplace discrimination experienced by transdimensional entities on a distant universal plane.

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Fiction
BJP and Shiv Sena flags.

The Hindu Right’s Deniability Politics

By: Protean Magazine May 19, 2022May 19, 2022
Critique & Essays

Pranay Somayajula interrogates the insidious rhetorical tactics of far-right Hindutva ideologues like Indian PM Narendra Modi and the BJP and RSS, who tacitly sanction pogroms while staying at arm’s length from the violence.

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Critique & Essays

Doomsday Pantoum

By: Protean Magazine May 18, 2022
Poetry

Innas Tsuroiya’s “Doomsday Pantoum,” wields the 15th-century Malaysian poetic form against the man-made kingdom of wealth, warning: “If you did not give up the lands, golden stools, / we laboring mass would start fires: must let go.”

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Poetry
Apple cart vendors.

Apple Rant

By: Protean Magazine May 13, 2022May 13, 2022
Poetry

Poet Karlo Sevilla’s “Apple Rant” follows the circulation of apples from U.S. orchards to street vendors in the Philippines, exposing the commodity as a site of imperial history, cultural anxiety, and class struggle.

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Poetry

Lost Dogs

By: Protean Magazine May 10, 2022
Poetry

Poet Sarpong-Osei Asamoah’s “Lost Dogs” is a prayer of revulsion, oscillating between the heavens and the sewers.

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Poetry

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