An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.
Natalie Shapero’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is the author of the poetry collections Popular Longing (2021), Hard Child (2017), and No Object (2013), and she has performed at The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches writing at UC Irvine.
We’re delighted to publish Natalie Shapero’s “Triple Double” and “Three Mysteries” –– two poems that explore death, basketball, and the violence of the commodity-form.