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Protean Magazine

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

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Apple cart vendors.

Apple Rant

By: Protean Magazine May 13, 2022May 13, 2022
Poetry

Poet Karlo Sevilla’s “Apple Rant” follows the circulation of apples from U.S. orchards to street vendors in the Philippines, exposing the commodity as a site of imperial history, cultural anxiety, and class struggle.

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Poetry

Lost Dogs

By: Protean Magazine May 10, 2022
Poetry

Poet Sarpong-Osei Asamoah’s “Lost Dogs” is a prayer of revulsion, oscillating between the heavens and the sewers.

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Poetry
A photo of NY activist Ramza.

“Post-Crisis, Still-Crisis:” New York City’s Violent Sweeps

By: Protean Magazine May 9, 2022May 22, 2022
Interviews

Sam Russek interviewed Ramza, an encampment resident in New York City who has been subjected to repeated arrest and police harassment. Sweeps have worsened under Mayor Eric Adams’s punitive policies.

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Interviews
Starbucks organizers group photo.

Organizing Starbucks: Face Time with the Billionaire Boss

By: Protean Magazine May 9, 2022May 9, 2022
News Analysis

Interviews with Starbucks union employees by Sudip Bhattacharya describe growing solidarity, company retaliation, and some bad-faith meetings with CEO Howard Schultz.

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News Analysis
Veiled Prophet graphic.

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

Wolves

By: pastelcathedral May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
Poetry

Poet Ryan Boyd’s “Wolves” assesses the “gray jubilee” of capitalist crisis as it unfolds in “cities sick / with envy” and “scabbed with police.”

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Poetry
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

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