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

Isaac Black is a historian and writer living in Salt Lake City. His short fiction has appeared in apt, Foliate, Oak, and The Macguffin. In these trying times, he is raising a dog and a vegetable garden and attempting to reverse engineer what it means to go “Viking Mode.”
  • The End of a World

    The End of a World

    Isaac Black offers a mediation on parental anxieties amidst the absurdities of contemporary capitalism. “Doing nothing is a luxury, I said to her in the singsong voice that babies understand.”