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

Jasper Bernes is author of two books of poetry, Starsdown (2007) and We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015). His most recent book is The Future of Revolution (Verso, 2025). He lives in Oakland and teaches at UC Berkeley.
  • After Sean Bonney

    After Sean Bonney

    Poet Jasper Bernes’s “After Sean Bonney” pays tribute to the late English poet with a militant howl that demands the realization of communism’s emancipatory promise.