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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by Jamie Hood. Let me try again. We know this story. A girl wanders alone in a wood. A path, unencumbered.
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‘Scary Stories’ is set in a past haunted by the Vietnam War, made for adults haunted by eternal remixes of their youth, and aimed at a future straining to reconcile the ghosts of its past. The film winds up nostalgic for a past no one experienced. It’s a product of a larger struggle to imagine our way out of an absent future.
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by Morgan Dowdy we shouldn’t be here but we are precisely here in this groove of the rock at the electrified edge of the yard chewing gum and shutting down Dead canaries litter the park Feathers all bloody and black Death in the vacant lot (Mamma…
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by Sarah Sturgis It’s summer and we’re playing soccer with a red rubber ball in the front when Max starts to do the thing he does when I’ve scored more goals than him. It’s the same frustrated look he’d get when he was a baby; his smile shrinks into a squinched-up line, and he pushes…
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by A.M. Gittlitz. In the Pampas, the vast prairies of southern Latin America, there’s a tale that stretches back to colonial times: the legend of the luz mala, or the bad light. It appears just above the ground, in the hills, or in the sky, a foreboding and spectral fireball of fluorescent white, red, blue, or green that follows solitary travelers.
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Apparently, some people do not take kindly to an ostensible progressive letting her hair down with the primary enabler of America’s torture program. Can’t a wealthy liberal hang out with her war criminal friend in peace?
Read Moreby Hibah Shabkhez Born too late to be children of the spring Lost too early for the grave of the fall You fly. Grateful still that your abyss-bearing thing Is paltry, unbombed, unburnt, one-foot tall You lie. So crave fried eggs and gnaw at stalks beside Your feet guilt-chained to an exam-clock fate And…
Read MoreDuring the one-month run of our recent Kickstarter campaign, where many of our generous readers were kind enough to pitch in and help us create our second issue, we were confronted with some disturbing news. Kickstarter is ostensibly a “public benefit corporation,” and in the past it has prided itself on its adherence to ethical…
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by Abby Cartus There’s a quotation often attributed to Big Bill Haywood, co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World: “I’ve never read Marx’s Capital, but I have the marks of capital all over me.” Usually considered to be a literal nod to Haywood’s long history of bruising encounters with the shock troops of…
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by Steven Monacelli
If philosopher Will Durant’s assertion that “we are what we repeatedly do” is true, then let’s face it: we are becoming increasingly machine-like through our near-constant interactions with technology.
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