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

Ian Maxton is a communist writer and critic whose work has appeared in Boston Review, LEAN, The Hobbyhorse, and elsewhere.
  • The Possession

    The Possession

    Poet Ian Maxton’s “The Possession” roams across the “spooked-out American map,” surveying the machinery of empire and the scorched landscapes it leaves behind.

  • Notes Toward the Restoration

    Notes Toward the Restoration

    by Ian Maxton: And then it will be as if you have just awoken from a strange dream. // Snow falling across the dark refracts the globes of streetlamps into halos.