Issue 12
| March 12, 2024

From the Editors

Editors’ Note|Friends of Peace

The Editors

“The Impossible Is Always Happening”|An Interview with Saree Makdisi

The Drift

DOVES

Normcore|On the Boardwalk with Norman Finkelstein

Julia Rock

Character Assassination|How the Hindu Right Distorted Gandhi

Aditya Narayan Sharma

Gender, Troubled|Judith Butler’s Culture War Misfire

Brock Colyar

HAWKS

A Bullshit Genius|On Walter Isaacson’s Biographical Project

Oscar Schwartz

Dance, Revolution|George Balanchine and Martha Graham Trade Places

Juliana DeVaan

Past Tense|Our Historical Fiction Hang-Ups

David Schurman Wallace

Stumped|Why Write (or Read) a Campaign Book?

Mark Chiusano

FICTION

Maud|Fiction

Noor Qasim

Unfathomably Deep|Fiction

Sophie Madeline Dess

Third Room|Fiction

Julian Robles

The Wolf Man|Fiction

Caroline Gioiosa

POETRY

An Apology|Poetry

Robert Wood Lynn

You Made a List of What You Wanted from the Earth|Poetry

Robert Wood Lynn

carrion|Poetry

Nicole Adabunu

Shed Light|Poetry

Michael D. Snediker

Idol|Poetry

Topaz Winters

Taylor Swift|Poetry

Ellie Black

DISPATCHES

No Returns|On Family Functions and Dysfunctions

Dan Brooks Elisa Gonzalez Gaby Del Valle Karim Kazemi Lydia Kiesling Nancy Ko Nawal Arjini Noelle Bodick P.E. Moskowitz Paul McAdory S.C. Cornell

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue Twelve

Issue 11
| November 8, 2023

From the Editors

Editors’ Note|Corrupt Organizations

The Editors

“The Logic of Plunder”|An Interview with Verónica Gago

The Drift

Special Feature: Gaza

“A Desperate Situation Getting More Desperate”|An Interview with Rashid Khalidi

The Drift

Turning the Tables|The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Revisited

Nancy Ko

Propaganda, Disinformation, Ideology|What the Fog of War Conceals

Erik Baker

On the War on Gaza|Dispatches

Bobuq Sayed Dylan Saba Hadas Binyamini Mariam Barghouti Nasreen Abd Elal Natan Last Sophia Goodfriend

CHARACTER

Truth to Power|Our Dissident Obsession

Alexander Wells

Can the Sireniform Speak?|Devolving with The Little Mermaid

Sophie Lewis

Basic Behavior|Mary Gaitskill Posts Her Drafts

Hannah Gold

PLOT

The War on Ecoterror|Environmental Radicalism, Left and Right

Gaby Del Valle

Lost in Translation|On J.M. Coetzee’s The Pole

Ella Fox-Martens

FICTION

Dorchester|Fiction

Steven Duong

Davy|Fiction

K Patrick

Greenness|Fiction

Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind

Moments of Elevation|Fiction

Eliza Barry Callahan

POETRY

Grief|Poetry

Harmony Holiday

Something very much like sadness and very much like develish enjoyment|Poetry

Harmony Holiday

2129|Poetry

Prince Bush

To the Watchlist|Poetry

George Abraham

the ghosts of the dead sea are rising|Poetry

George Abraham

Craving|Poetry

Emma Winsor Wood

DISPATCHES

We Can No Longer Afford Illusions|The Supreme Court and the Left

Alexandra Brodsky Andy Liu Aziz Huq Aziz Rana Ben Sobel Diana Reddy Duncan Hosie Eleni Schirmer Henry Hicks IV Nick Martin Noah Rosenblum Rhiannon Hamam Samuel Moyn Steven Donziger

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 11

Issue 10
| July 12, 2023

From the Editors

Editors’ Note|Extremely Online

The Editors

“Not Really Disciplined About Disciplines”|An Interview with Cathy Park Hong

The Drift

SAVING FACE

A Good Prospect|Mining Climate Anxiety for Profit

Nick Bowlin

The Bad Patient|Fake Illnesses, Illness Fakers, and the Problem of Medical Testimony

B.D. McClay

FACE VALUE

Dream of Antonoffication|Pop Music’s Blandest Prophet

Mitch Therieau

An Offer You Can’t Refuse|How a Mob Statute Metastasized

Piper French

Picking up the Shards|Why You Should Listen to Bret Easton Ellis

Gabriel Jandali Appel

FICTION & POETRY

The Angelines Chan of Pokfulam Road|Fiction

Rosemarie Ho

Have You Heard This One Before|Fiction

Mariah Kreutter

Customs / Psychological|Fiction

Angelo Hernandez-Sias

This Means Nothing to Me|Fiction

Vivian Z. Hu

My Prince|Fiction

Georgia Petersen

Dinner with Jack|Poetry

Megan Fernandes

Semi-Unintelligible|Poetry

Isabel Galleymore

Privilege of Bleeding|Poetry

Kim Hyesoon

Revelation|Poetry

Zaynab Bobi

Californian|Poetry

S. Brook Corfman

DISPATCHES

Publicists, Manifesto Pushers, Propagandists|What Happened to the Avant-Garde?

Alphonse Pierre Becca Rothfeld Dean Kissick Eugene Lim Frank Guan Gabriel Kuri hannah baer Jamie Hood Liza Batkin Lucy Sante Marta Figlerowicz Melissa Anderson Timo Andres

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 10

Issue 9
| February 28, 2023

From the Editors

Editors’ Note|Circling the Drain

The Editors

“There’s a Lot More That Needs to Be Done”|An Interview with Barbara Smith

The Drift

SILENCED

Words Exchanged|Italophone Somalia, Then and Now

Iman Mohamed

After the Fatwa|Losing Faith in Salman Rushdie

Zain Khalid

Shiny Objects|The Koh-i-noor, Rishi Sunak, and the Aesthetics of Anticolonialism

Pranay Somayajula

All Roll Is B-Roll|Adam Curtis Goes Quiet

Mitch Therieau

SURVEILLED

The View from Jeju|Behind Nancy Fraser’s Hidden Abodes

Nancy Ko

Electric Bodies|Medical Technology Takes Over

Jameson Rich

Posed Riddles|Seeing Through Empathy with Diane Arbus

Max Norman

FICTION & POETRY

Summer People|Fiction

Silas Jones

Thrown|Fiction

Clare Needham

Indians Can’t Fly|Fiction

Magogodi oaMphela Makhene

On Snowfall|Poetry

Joanna Klink

Heartbreaking Breathtaking|Poetry

Rigel Portales

Bóín Dé|Poetry

Timothy Donnelly

Latent Heat|Poetry

Gospel Chinedu

New History|Poetry

Jessica Laser

DISPATCHES

RIP Good Times|On the Future of Big Tech

Annie Rauwerda Ben Tarnoff David Adler David Ethan Jones-Krause Jane Chung Jeannette Estruth Jordan Coley JS Tan Lora Kelley Sophie Haigney Tarpley Hitt

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 9

Issue 8
| November 1, 2022

From the Editors

Editors’ Note|Hindsight Is 2020

The Editors

“Feels Like Life”|An Interview with Barbara Kruger

The Drift

Monsters

Fetal Rites|What We Can Learn from Fifty Years of Anti-Abortion Propaganda

S.C. Cornell

Just Beans|What Was Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism?

Malcolm Harris

But What I Really Want to Do Is Write!|The Year of the Auteur Novel

Hanson O’Haver

Mortals

America’s Son|Who’s Afraid of Hunter Biden?

Tarpley Hitt

Against Queer Presentism|How the Book World Neglects the Archive

Colton Valentine

Controlled|Annie Ernaux and the Millennial Sex Novel

Noor Qasim

Fiction & Poetry

Tiny Beasts|Fiction

Ayla Zuraw-Friedland

Very Polite|Fiction

Percival Everett

Arrangements|Fiction

Vivian Hu

War Kink|Fiction

Bobuq Sayed

Four Stories|Fiction

Garielle Lutz

Three Poems|Poetry

Natalie Shapero

Coin|Poetry

Fatima Jafar

The North|Poetry

Tomaž Šalamun

Explicit, 1976|Poetry

Paula Bohince

Iphigenia in Aulis as Crystallography|Poetry

Angelo Mao

Dispatches

“A Painfully Precise Measure of the Climate Movement’s Power”|On the State of Climate Activism

Ama Francis Annie Crabill April Zhu Arvin Alaigh Chanelle Adams Charlene Wang Daniel Sherrell Emma Hager Erin O’Brien Hannah Hunt India Logan-Riley Jack McCordick Jake Bittle Johnathan Guy Josh Lappen Marcela Mulholland Vince Cooper Zoya Rehman

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 8

Issue 7
| June 14, 2022

From the Editors

Editors' Note|Gloom and Doom

The Editors

"A Catastrophic Loss of Faith in America"|An Interview with Pankaj Mishra

The Drift

Gloom

Sick to Our Stomachs|Why Does Everyone Have IBS?

Natasha Boyd

A Star Is Born|Raffi Gessen-Gould's Examined Life

Piper French

Scenes from a Crisis|Selfishness Switches Genders

Oscar Schwartz

Not-So-Magic Kingdom|Disney Takes on Affordable Housing

Gaby Del Valle

Doom

All in the Family|Amy's Kitchen and America's Shadow Workforce

Erik Baker

The Air We Move Through|Rhetoric, Bureaucracy, and the Immigration Debate

Elisa Gonzalez

Beyond "Hate"|Evading the Carceral Trap of Asian American Grievance

Rose Nguyen

The Audacity of Nature Docs|What Barack Obama's Our Great National Parks Leaves Out

Chanelle Adams

Everything Has Changed|Green Capitalism and the Climate Left

Jake Bittle

Fiction & Poetry

The Patriotic Hat|Fiction

Alec Niedenthal

Hollywood Tours|Fiction

Madeline Cash

All Kinds|Fiction

Hannah Kingsley-Ma

A Fable|Poetry

Robin Myers

The Fool|Poetry

Emily Skillings

Groom XII|Poetry

Isabel Duarte-Gray

Poem in Which I'm Called Unknowable Despite Near-Constant Nudity|Poetry

Kindall Fredricks

Polytopes|Poetry

Kevin Holden

Dispatches

"Here Comes the Break"|On Literary Fiction Today

Alexandra Kleeman Andrew Martin Christian Lorentzen Clare Sestanovich Gabriel Smith Hannah Gold Lucie Elven Missouri Williams Sanjena Sathian Tope Folarin

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 7

Issue 6
| January 31, 2022

From the Editors

Editors' Note|Good Lord

The Editors

"Justice at the Necessary Scale"|An Interview with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Drift Editors

Progress

What Was the TED Talk?|Some Thoughts on the “Inspiresting”

Oscar Schwartz

My Ancestral Home, the Mall|Lil Miquela’s Post-Racial Society

Kim Hew-Low

Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot|Against the Contemporary American Essay

Jackson Arn

Those Who Know|Exterminate All the Brutes and the Limits of Rewriting the Narrative

Nick Martin

Recurrence

Vibe, Mood, Energy|Or, Bust-Time Reenchantment

Mitch Therieau

Joke’s on Them|The Democratic Party Meets Rural America

Nick Bowlin

A Little Spectrum-y|What the Autism Diagnosis Says About You

Emer Lucey

College Debt |USC and the Problem of the Private University

Piper French

Fiction & Poetry

Couture|Fiction

Lucie Elven

The Complete|Fiction

Gabriel Smith

Untranslatability|Fiction

James Yeh

If Only Someone Would Get Aquinas in Here|Fiction

Missouri Williams

A History of Pigs in America|Fiction

Hannah Kauders

White Men Are the End of a Black Woman’s Youth|Poetry

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

bye|Poetry

Charles Rybak

Nothing Like the Sun|Poetry

Daniel Poppick

Dispatches

"Steered by the Reactionary"|What To Do About Feminism

Alexandra Brodsky Andrea Long Chu Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Becca Rothfeld Elisa Gonzalez Jamie Hood Jess Bergman Rosemarie Ho

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 6

Issue 5
| September 27, 2021

From the Editors

Editors' Note|Eighteen Months

The Editors

"A New Form of War"|An Interview with Samuel Moyn

The Drift

System

Stuffing Ourselves|Amazon, the USPS, and the Tyranny of Logistics

Jake Bittle

Truth and Consequences|Documentaries and the Art of Manipulation

Blair McClendon

Invested Development|Hacking Ethiopia's Future

Britt H. Young

Dead Poet Anxiety|John Ashbery in the Age of Social Media

David Schurman Wallace

Failure

XOXO, Ruling Class|Gossip Girl, The O.C., and the New Gilded Age

David Klion

Case Sensitive|Why We Shouldn't Capitalize "Black"

Nicholas Whittaker

Persistence Pays|A Young Readers' Report

Sophie Haigney

Like a Colossus|Ben Rhodes Goes Looking for Democracy

Parvin Khan

Fiction & Poetry

Parent Trap|Fiction

Hannah Gold

Essay|Poetry

Elisa Gonzalez

The Sun Sets, Input Not Detected|Poetry

Greg Nissan

Dispatches

"Left in the Dark"|Covid Behind Bars

April Harris Christopher Blackwell Corey Devon Arthur Darla Jones Felix Sitthivong Joel Castón Olethus Hill Jr.Patrick Stephens Wesley Williams

"Determined to Wait"|Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Around the World

Carey Baraka Meher Ahmad Nicole Froio Pamela Maddock Peter Vale Tryggvi Brynjarsson Zoey Poll

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 5

Issue 4
| May 6, 2021

From the Editors

Editors' Note|Party Time

"A Radical Demonstration of 'America First'"|An Interview with Adam Tooze

The Drift

Frontiers

The End of the Road|Nomadland, My Mother, and the Frontier's Broken Promise

Mitchell Johnson

The ISIS Beat|Why Caliphate and Everyone Else Got It Wrong

Rozina Ali

The Translation Trap|Latin American Literature and the International Market

Julia Kornberg

Eternity Now!|Jeff Bezos's 10,000-Year Plan

Josh Marcus

Interiors

Fiction Detective|On Literary Citation and Search Engine Sleuthing

Sophie Haigney

Other People's Despair|Mending the Social Fabric Won't Fix the Suicide Crisis

Erik Baker

Good Immigrant Novels|Jhumpa Lahiri and the Aesthetics of Respectability

Sanjena Sathian

A Jerusalem of the Mind|Academic Freedom After Edward Said

Andrew Marzoni

Personal Hell|The Climate Anxiety Novel

Rithika Ramamurthy

Fiction & Poetry

Objects of Desire|Fiction

Clare Sestanovich

The Underlying Issue|Fiction

Pete Segall

The Late Year|Fiction

Lily Meyer

Real Estate: Fables|Poetry

Adrienne Raphel

Dispatches

"An Impossible Feedback Loop"|The Year in Mental Health

Andy Hyatt Anne Larsen Anonymous contributors Beth Blum Brianna Suslovic Jess Bergman Mike Rosmann Rachel Connolly Şerife Tekin Tarpley Hitt

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 4

Issue 3
| February 3, 2021

From the Editors

Editors' Note|The First But Not the Last

"A Punishing American Zeitgeist"|An Interview with Nikhil Pal Singh

The Drift

Hard Truths

Doctor Do-Little|The Case Against Fauci

Sam Adler-Bell

The Land Was Ours|Trump, Biden, and Public Lands

Nick Bowlin

New Sheriff in Town|Law Enforcement and the Urban-Rural Divide

Jonathon Booth

Not All Millennials|Generational Wealth and the New Inequality

Kiara Barrow

Comforting Fictions

How To Be Oblivious|Complacency and Doom in Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind

Hannah Gold

The Original Karen|Colonial Nostalgia and Nairobi’s Out of Africa Industry

Carey Baraka

A Pool of One's Own|Group Biographies and the Female Friendship Vogue

Noelle Bodick

First-Person Shooter Ideology|The Cultural Contradictions of Call of Duty

Daniel Bessner

Strong Female Leads|The Reese Witherspoon Literary Canon

Marella Gayla

Fiction & Poetry

Mr Blythe Esq.|Fiction

Amber Medland

[A Moment Breaking Loose from the Past Becomes the Voice Inside Your Head]|Poetry

Jackie Wang

Dispatches

"Speak to the Moment"|Art under Trump

Blair McClendon Jenny G. Zhang Matt Christman Merve Emre Rosemarie Ho Sasha Frere-Jones Sophie Haigney Tausif Noor

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 3

Issue 2
| October 21, 2020

FROM THE EDITORS

Editors' Note|A Feature, Not a Bug

"Naming the Work"|An Interview with Silvia Federici

The Drift

HIDDEN

"Different Experiences with the Data"|DC's Covid Math

Allison Hrabar

Losing Count|The Sordid Business of Bookkeeping

Noah Kulwin

First World Problems|The Politics of Development Aid in Britain

Helena Roy

Our Friend Angela|Soviet Schoolchildren, a Letter-Writing Campaign, and the Legend of Angela Davis

Yana Skorobogatov

IN PLAIN SIGHT

Bringing It Back to Baldwin|Myth, Memoir, and America’s Racial Reckoning

Joel Rhone

A Note from the Fireline|Climate Change and the Colonial Legacy of Fire Suppression

Jordan Thomas

Art after Objecthood|Self-Consciousness from the Minimalists to the Present

Lucas Zwirner

The DJ and the Miracle Cure|The Perils of Postcolonial Medicine in Madagascar

Chanelle Adams

American Accident|All the Presidents' Movies

Rebecca Panovka

FICTION & POETRY

Tell Me About the Weather|Fiction

Sarahana Shrestha

And Who Would You Prefer Told the Story?|Poetry

Sasha Debevec-McKenney

Bullets|Poetry

Kaleem Hawa

DISPATCHES

"Stratified and Fragmented"|Teaching and Learning in a Pandemic

Andrew DiPrinzio Bix Archer Bryan Bejarano Chet Ozmun Dylan Hardenbergh Emily Tian George Duoblys James McAsh John Tormey Julia Martins Juliette Bretan Kiva Uhuru Lucas Cassoli Mia Wood Shoaib Shafi Tryggvi Brynjarsson

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 2

Issue 1
| June 24, 2020

FROM THE EDITORS

Editors' Note|Now More So Than Ever

"A Worldwide Mutual Pact"|An Interview with Wendy Brown

The Drift

NOT ABOUT THE PLAGUE

#MeToo's Strike Test|Harvard's Union Campaign and the Limits of "Time's Up" Organizing

Ege Yumusak

Capitalist Pigs|Pork Farming Meets Zombie Science

Brad Bolman

Nothing to Apologize For|Samantha Power’s Bosnia Syndrome

Krithika Varagur

Far-Flung Commiserators|Jubilee Gestures and Revolutionary Stirrings in Black Lives Matter

Lake Micah

Party Politics|The Last Days of Queer Club Culture

Simon Wu

What's Going On|The Racist History of "Night Life" in The New Yorker

Phillip Golub

ABOUT THE PLAGUE

Drug Money|The Race for a Vaccine

Noah Kulwin

The Cure and the Disease|Social Darwinism from AIDS to Covid-19

Erik Baker

Chaos, Aggregated|A Pandemic Novelist Takes to Twitter

Madeline Conway

Nature's Revenge Porn|Animal Documentaries in a Pandemic

Rebecca Panovka

FICTION & POETRY

Grosseto|Fiction

Moira McCavana

The Lotus on Marina Bay Speaks|Poetry

Zoë Hitzig

DISPATCHES

"More Precisely Revolution"|Notes from the Protests Worldwide

Deshawn McKinney Henry Shah Kaamya Varagur Lily Bou Shaj Mohan Zuneera Shah

MENTIONS

Extremely Abbreviated Reviews | Issue 1