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

Lyta Gold is a freelance writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Protean and Current Affairs, and she hosts the podcast Art for the End Times on The Real News Network.
  • Dimestore novels were documentaries

    Dimestore novels were documentaries

    In “Dimestore novels were documentaries,” poet and essayist Lyta Gold explores how the language of the supernatural and extraterrestrial inflects everyday life.

  • Elves in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    Elves in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    Lyta Gold examines the fairy-tale figure of the elf. Recurring in separate cultures—in fiction, in folklore, and in symbology—elves signify far more than the fantastical.

  • Rebis

    Rebis

    Rebis, a piece of short fiction by Lyta Gold, explores the thoroughly unmagical and material realities of modern dating.