An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.
Sudip Bhattacharya, a researcher at Rutgers, reports on the recent labor action there. In the first strike of Rutgers’s 257 years, new solidarities emerged among not only precarious adjunct faculty and grad students, but also undergraduates, university employees, and beyond.
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Havana Syndrome, Evan Malmgren writes, may be a hoax, but militaries have long been captivated by the idea of directed energy weapons. Even if Cuba isn’t using them to give headaches to diplomats, the thought that they might may be the weapons’ greatest purpose.
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Sam Russek reviews Verso’s new English edition of Ludovico Silva’s classic Marx’s Literary Style (trans. Paco Brito Núñez). As Silva illustrated in 1971, Marx’s harmonies between concretion and literary flourishes are key to his work’s effect.
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Part of a larger sonnet sequence based on the pre-Columbian myth of El Cipitio, William Archila’s untitled poem explores Salvadoran history and the scholars who distort it.
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In “Ballad of saltwater children,” poet Sarpong Osei Asamoah illuminates the histories of the Akan people and their long struggle against the “borderless noose” of racial capitalism and ecological violence.
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Poet Cody Tracy’s “Iron” narrates our ecological and social decline as “A bond between rivers. Between the gone and / those of us not yet dead.”
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Poet Brett Belcastro’s “Guitar-Shaped Forest” oscillates between visions of apocalyptic militarism and utopian longing.
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Nigerian poet Fadairo Tesleem’s “In Shaa Allah” is a prayer against war and a call to “lift the lamp of solace & may it flutter / through the four edges of the world.”
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Poet CD Eskilson’s “In My Home City” mourns a neighborhood obliterated by development projects and hostile architecture.
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In “Same Season,” Brazilian poet Isabella Cruz Pantoja explores the contradictions of human and ecological relationships during “the season of / blackouts, of landslides, and mudslides, of / too much water and not enough water.”
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