Middle Insomnia

Miracle Jones

New fiction from Miracle Jones

December 7

Boy Afraid

Grace Byron

Hayao Miyazaki’s grief-soaked kingdom of boyhood dreams.

December 6

Be True to Your Bar

Kevin Brazil

Whither the gay bar?

December 4

Gazan Workers in Limbo

Mariam Barghouti

Laborers who had their work permits revoked after October 7 remain stranded.

Israel and Palestine in Context

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November 30

Israel’s Permit Regime

Nevin Kallepalli

Israel is increasing its reliance on foreign workers—laying the groundwork for a nation without Palestinians.

November 21

Combined and Uneven Catastrophe

Joshua Craze

A conversation with Kareem Rabie about the occupied West Bank.

September 11

Forest Against the Trees

Sarah Aziza

To another’s eye, the transformation of this land might be viewed as “progress.”

October 26

Tectonic Shifts

Dylan Saba

What is the ethical way to climb out of hell?

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From the Magazine

Current issue, no. 71

Bringing up the Bodies

Caroline Tracey

The forensic anthropologists who redress migrant death in Texas

Works Not Faith

Helen Epstein

A forgotten strategy in the fight against HIV in Africa

Must Something Be Done?

Baffler Symposium

A symposium on humanitarianism’s purpose

From the Archives

Told you so

The campaign song is frequently the porch popular music crawls beneath before it rolls into the fetal position and dies.

I’m Feeling Bad About America

J.W. McCormack

November 2018

Palestinian resistance and the road to liberation

Building from the Rubble

M. Muhannad Ayyash

May 2021

Latest

December 1

Queers Without Money

Amber Hollibaugh, Lisa Duggan

In America, the only appropriate desires are those that rest comfortably atop plenty of money.

November 29

Sphere Eats the Soul

Aaron Timms

The Sphere in Las Vegas is the canonical venue for the online era.

November 28

It’s All Bullshit

JS Tan

Is Google’s era of abundance—and abundant bullshit—coming to an end?

Queers Without Money

Amber Hollibaugh, Lisa Duggan

December 01

Queers Without Money

Amber Hollibaugh, Lisa Duggan

December 01

November 29

Sphere Eats the Soul

Aaron Timms

The Sphere in Las Vegas is the canonical venue for the online era.

November 28

It’s All Bullshit

JS Tan

Is Google’s era of abundance—and abundant bullshit—coming to an end?

Online

November 22

After Melville

Andrew Schenker

The great author is eternally pursued and rediscovered

November 21

Empires Are No Gentlemen

Jacob Dreyer

The failures of Sino-American climate diplomacy

November 20

Making Migrants Disappear

Taylor Mitchell

France redesigns the Calais border as a “magical” place

November 15

Inhospitable

Eli Frankel

Process mismanagement in American health care

November 16

Who Are Ready to Rouse Up Leviathan?

Ed Simon

John Gray’s Many Post-Liberalisms

November 9

After the Flood

Tarence Ray

Perpetual crisis and recovery in Eastern Kentucky

Poems

November

Primitiva no lo sabe pero la están caricaturizando

Gabriel Dozal

From issue no. 71

November

Untitled

Konstantin Vaginov

From issue no. 71

November

The Outpost

Tomas Tranströmer

From issue no. 71

Fiction

November 18, 2002

Memory for Forgetfulness

Mahmoud Darwish

It’s six o’clock in the morning, and I’m in hell itself.

November 24

Good Medicine

Sophie Hoss

After my father died in the mine shaft, they left his body on our front yard next to the white roses.

November 6

Mei Bao’s World

Can Xue

Is this the sea?

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