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Each parenthetical a haunting sour stuck inside my mouth, tucked under my tongue, almost masked by the saccharine taste of pesticides from the garlic fields.
Notes for Antifa from a Former “Terrorist”
Debating the use of violence as a political tool.
Two Poems
Just imagine the surprise at finding yourself
invented, called on—first by one, then another,
then endlessly, and for some
Our Most-Loved Culture Stories of 2017
Ten critical stories from 2017 that explore our present aesthetic moment: from the rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos to Instagram and the personal essay to The Handmaid's Tale and Drake.
Good Reader, Bad Reader
Bad readers were not born; they were created. To know them is to understand literature and politics in postwar America.
The New Territories
On the first night
the iconodule was my husband
and his mouth flesh
along my spine and voice
My Last Client
“I wanted his body to begin and end elsewhere, at home, meaning his home, wherever that was, meaning even I, whose job was to include him, wanted him out.”
The Instagrammable Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque.
Gamifying the Ocean
Silicon Valley has turned the problem of marine plastic waste into yet another avenue for “disruption.” But why should clean oceans have to make good business sense?
History Is a Dystopia
A conversation with novelist Tananarive Due on writing the past—and a way out of it.
An Autobiography of Captivity
Shane McCrae's new book, a finalist for the National Book Award, is an astonishingly precise account of a complex emotional past.
Poet’s Sampler: Chloe Forsell
America, she is not
America—
is nearby, is
nearly in sight
Sunflowers
Eventually, it became obvious that we didn’t have a mission. Or our mission, for what it’s worth, was the lack thereof.
Savage Vistas
Lynn Melnick's jagged poems interrogate rape culture to reveal the absurdity of misogyny.
A Bad Check for Black America
Nixon’s embrace of “black capitalism” turned the wealth gap into a wealth chasm.
One Year Later
We have to do much more than fight back, we have to fight for the world that could liberate and sustain us all when Trump is gone.
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