The Tongue and the Egg

Hari Krishna Kaul

Short fiction by Hari Krishna Kaul

December 20

Impolite Society

Josef Burton

Structural violence demands a certain politeness.

December 21

Furious Jumping

Kenneth Dillon

“Poor Things” samples the radical potential of rebirth.

December 15

No Side to Fall In

Mary Turfah

In Gaza, hospitals aren’t hospitals unless proven otherwise.

Israel and Palestine in Context

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December 4

Gazan Workers in Limbo

Mariam Barghouti

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

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, 2023

Forest Against the Trees

Sarah Aziza

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

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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

How political science fell into the thrall of fundamentalist forecasting.

The Do-Nothing Discipline

Jeff Hauser

March 2018

To get to Hart Island, a hundred-acre sliver of land in the Long Island Sound, you must first make your way to City Island, a slightly larger sliver of land off the coast of the Bronx. City Island is a small community that feels more Long Island than Bronx. Its streets are lined ...

Abolishing the Prison of the Dead

Kristen Martin

November 2019

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December 14

Take It to the Spank Bank

Anabelle Johnston

We had entered the uncanny valley, and everyone was naked.

December 13

The Afterlife of a Coup

Sammy Feldblum

Fifty years of Chilean life in the films of Patricio Guzmán.

December 11

Dreck of the Irish

Jack Sheehan

The far right is on the rise in Ireland.

Take It to the Spank Bank

Anabelle Johnston

December 14

Take It to the Spank Bank

Anabelle Johnston

December 14

A bra is strapped over a laptop screen showing a pixellated pair of breasts.

December 13

The Afterlife of a Coup

Sammy Feldblum

Fifty years of Chilean life in the films of Patricio Guzmán.

December 11

Dreck of the Irish

Jack Sheehan

The far right is on the rise in Ireland.

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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 1

Queers Without Money

Amber Hollibaugh, Lisa Duggan

The myth of queer affluence

November 29

Sphere Eats the Soul

Aaron Timms

Architecture as entertainment

November 28

It’s All Bullshit

JS Tan

Performing productivity at Google

November 22

After Melville

Andrew Schenker

The great author is eternally pursued and rediscovered

Poems

November

Primitiva no lo sabe pero la están caricaturizando

Gabriel Dozal

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Untitled

Konstantin Vaginov

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November

The Outpost

Tomas Tranströmer

From issue no. 71

Fiction

December 8

Middle Insomnia

Miracle Jones

“This will never stop being funny.”

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.

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