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The Cult of the Veiled Prophet

By: Protean Magazine May 6, 2022May 6, 2022
Critique & Essays

Devin Thomas O’Shea relates the sordid history of St. Louis, MO’s Veiled Prophet Society—an occult men’s club and debutante ball for Southern power elites, founded by a Confederate who adapted a 19th-century poem to serve as a stand-in for the Ku Klux Klan.

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Critique & Essays
Town of Babylon cover.

Nowhere is a Place: Alejandro Varela’s The Town of Babylon

By: Protean Magazine May 3, 2022May 26, 2022
Reviews

Marcos Gonsalez reviews Alejandro Varela’s debut novel The Town of Babylon. Andrés, the novel’s gay Colombian-American protagonist, returns to suburbia and muses on identity, race, and the prejudice and hierarchy that constitutes America.

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Reviews
An antique map.

Shot Down Above Sicily

By: Protean Magazine April 29, 2022
Poetry

Poet James O’Leary’s “Shot Down Above Sicily” explores historical memory through the mysterious death of French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who vanished during an anti-Nazi reconnaissance mission.

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Poetry

Submissions Call – Protean Issue 4

By: Protean Magazine April 28, 2022May 28, 2022
Announcements

Our 2022 print submissions call is now open! The submissions period will run for 30 days, closing on Friday, May 27th.

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Announcements
The cover of Haiven's Palm Oil.

Sacrifice Networks: A Review of Max Haiven’s Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire

By: Protean Magazine April 28, 2022May 13, 2022
Reviews

Alex Skopic reviews Max Haiven’s Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire, out now from Pluto Press. The grotesque history of this ubiquitous commodity offers a lens onto the environmental and human costs of imperialism and industry.

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Reviews

Singal and the Noise

By: Protean Magazine April 22, 2022April 25, 2022
Critique & Essays

Journalist Jesse Singal has made a career out of “just asking questions” about gender dysphoria in youth. His arguments have proven appealing to reactionaries eager to demonize and harm trans people, writes M.K. Anderson.

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Critique & Essays
The cover of Cynthia Cruz's The Melancholia of Class.

Belonging Nowhere: Cynthia Cruz’s The Melancholia of Class

By: Protean Magazine April 20, 2022April 20, 2022
Reviews

Alexander Billet reviews Cynthia Cruz’s The Melancholia of Class, a work of memoir and cultural criticism that examines the inflections of class, assimilation, and loss on independent art.

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Reviews
Off The Edge book cover.

Off the Edge: An Interview with Kelly Weill

By: Protean Magazine April 8, 2022April 8, 2022
Interviews

Shane Burley interviewed Kelly Weill on her new book, Off the Edge, fringe conspiracism, and the erosion of consensus reality.

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Interviews
Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything.

Primordial Freedoms: An Interview with David Wengrow

By: Protean Magazine March 28, 2022March 28, 2022
Interviews

Clinton Williamson spoke to archaeologist David Wengrow about his book with co-author David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything, and about how their new interpretation of the past confounds conventional histories.

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Interviews

Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster’s COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education

By: Protean Magazine March 22, 2022March 23, 2022
Critique & Essays

Free-market interests used fights over COVID protocols to further privatize K-12 education. Economist Emily Oster, whose research is funded by those groups, has laundered their ideologies and given them the imprimatur of science, write epidemiologists Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman.

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