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

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Fair Gabbro & the Reclamation of Time (a sonnic)

By: Protean Magazine January 22, 2022January 27, 2022
Poetry

We’re thrilled to publish upfromsumdirt’s “Fair Gabbro & the Reclamation of Time,” part of a longer poetic suite exploring myth, fairy tales, and the history of the slave trade.

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Poetry

The Law Mine

By: Protean Magazine January 19, 2022January 19, 2022
Fiction

The latest in fiction: Max Rachimburg shares “The Law Mine,” a parable about the prevailing order. Is the law objective, divine, derived from nature? Or is it something we make?

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Fiction

The Zone

By: Protean Magazine January 15, 2022
Poetry

Poet Rodrigo Toscano’s “The Zone” explores the entangled processes of imperialism, nation-building, and literary culture across the western hemisphere.

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Poetry

The Capitol Rioters and Punitive State Power

By: Protean Magazine January 6, 2022January 6, 2022
News Analysis

Shane Burley reflects on the Capitol insurrection and the federal investigation’s reliance on the public.

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News Analysis

2021: Year in Review

By: Protean Magazine December 31, 2021December 31, 2021
Announcements

Protean was honored to feature the work of dozens of talented writers, poets, and artists this year, both in print and online. Here’s a selection of our publications from 2021.

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Announcements

A Hospitable World

By: Protean Magazine December 22, 2021
Poetry

Poet Alex Bucik’s “A Hospitable World” denaturalizes the familiar by revealing the “work / of the same invisible hand / that plants the public gardens every spring / and kills the vagrants in their sleep.”

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Poetry

Elves in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

By: Protean Magazine December 20, 2021February 22, 2022
Critique & Essays

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.

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Critique & Essays

Erasing Tejas

By: Protean Magazine December 17, 2021
Poetry

Poet Sebastián H. Páramo’s “Erasing Tejas” explores displacement and dispossession throughout Texas history, set against a backdrop of ongoing climate catastrophe.

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Poetry

Dead Man Running

By: Protean Magazine December 17, 2021December 24, 2021
News Analysis

“If anything, Levon Manzie seemed to campaign harder after he died.” Ryan Zickgraf reports from Mobile, AL with the story of an attempt to elect a deceased councilman: a racist plot to make the largely Black city majority-white.

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News Analysis

ALL THE TV SHOWS ARE ABOUT COPS

By: Protean Magazine December 16, 2021December 31, 2021
Poetry

To thank our new Patrons, we’re republishing an incredible poem from our third print issue: Hanif Abdurraqib’s “ALL THE TV SHOWS ARE ABOUT COPS.”

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Poetry

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