Nationalists and Ethnic Minorities in Poland
What happens when great powers redraw the map?
Poland's far-right government passes new restrictions on the German minority—the latest moment of a long, traumatic history.
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To Be a Poet, Open Your Eyes
An homage to William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams is often sidelined as a poet’s poet for modernist snobs. In fact, he was a social poet whose democratic art was for the people.
A Division of Labor
A science fiction TV drama explores questions of slavery and self in the workplace
In "Severance," work-life balance is given a dystopian spin through tech-induced split personalities.
Spiraling Melancholia
An interview with Fox Maxy, whose films explore identity in frenetic first-person shots
Our writer chats with Fox Maxy, a Native experimental filmmaker whose work blends documentary with fiction in a distinct DIY aesthetic.
The whirlwind is sown.
But the sowers are dead.
And it is ours to reap.
Atlas Dabbed
New York, NY | USA
Suspended over this one-to-one-scale map of my doomed metropolis, I saw all at once the extent of the sickness that had fallen on New York.
From Issue 3
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
In the Domain of the Unknown
From death mask to CPR manikin, L'Inconnue de la Seine is a mythic symbol of our attempts to grapple with death - or reverse it.
A drowned Victorian teen, her medical manikin doppelganger, and their enduring entanglement with the question: “Can death be undone?”
Great minds are not like ordinary people; theydo not wash socks or remember birthdays.They see clear through one aspect of the world, socks and all. The aspect furls and stretches like a catbaked in sunlight. Or molten glasspulled like hot caramel in cool stone hands. I have known three Great...
