An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.
We are now proud to announce our upcoming second issue, Anti-Sisyphus. Pre-order on our webstore today.
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In our inaugural issue of original essays, fiction, poetry, and art, we explore how technology impacts the human condition.
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Arîn Mîrkan is immortal,
lighting up the death star,
setting on ten centuries like the monasteries aflame,
the brave little sternums all become
shields to tanks and heavy guns
Delegates of the Democratic Socialists of America convened in Atlanta for their 2019 National Convention, where they overwhelmingly voted in favor of resolutions that, among other things, call for open borders and endorsing a Green New Deal program.
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The table was set for carnivores,
plush reds, and cynical, published bores—
darling, my subtle, every barb and bent
look was over what someone wrote or spent
Poem and photograph by Fargo Tbakhi. when power decreed that body un-grievable, everyone made mourning like a pet. we filled apartments with chatter. we made heaven our subtext. naseem his body draped across the border fence. the tunnels under gaza overflowed with the things we smuggled in (food, bullets, fire, nothing) and out (music, bodies,…
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“Antifascist metal is the most dangerous kind there is, because it holds the revolutionary potential to enact actual change, to challenge oppressive structures and systems of power, and to provide marginalized people with the support and space they need to become more involved with a scene that desperately needs their perspectives.”
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by Ridwan Tijani
I sing Won Kere Si Number Wa in three voices. Fatai rolling dollar / a philosopher of the transcendental lyric / a man with gastric problems & whenever I’m bloated, I think of him.
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by Michael Malloy
Part VI: Finding Our Phones Again
When we talk about the future today, we envision the valleys and peaks of the modern world in sharp relief. Our flirtation with inadvertent self-extinction through climate collapse brings to some despair, to others a perverse and nihilistic joy. Still others reject in principle that the danger is real.
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take a feeling
black people ain’t really felt in 600 years,
say freedom
but, sing liberty.
by Nomax Jodevaski
Isn’t this like an empire or something?
What’s that mean if you can’t kill whoever
you want?
by Tyler Walicek
This article appears in our first print issue, Pattern Machines.
I have been swept up in many addictions over the course of my life, as we all have in one way or another. Yet few have been as insidious and bewildering as my entanglement in the compulsive loops that drive the modern Internet.
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