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Current Issue, No. 35



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Fighting Words

Laurie Penny

Understand the difference between speaking truth to power and screaming for power in the face of truth.


Fiction


Captain’s Table

Kate Christensen

For the past decade or so, I have been obsessed with news stories about cruise ships, in particular the idea of minor disasters at. . .


Against Poetry

Kaveh Akbar

  There is no word in English for the circle left on a table from a cold glass, or for the difference in flavor between fresh. . .


Pony

Monica Ferrell

  After the snakebite, I tried to make noises         With the clouds in my throat, the dissolving Snow of my. . .


Word Factory