Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
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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.
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.
The Ballad of Glanton Dowdell
An excerpt from The Black Utopians
Glanton Dowdell, painter of Detroit's Black Madonna, took a picaresque journey through the American 1930s.
A Political History of the NFL Jersey
The evolution of the professional football jersey tracks that of racial capitalism, technology, and empire
In its design and symbolism as much as its materials and production, the NFL jersey is an artifact of an industrial society shaped by racism and capitalism.
We Were All Palestinians, Weren’t We?
The view from Palestine on Israel’s new protest movement
Our reporter talks to Israelis and Palestinians alike, amid Israel's biggest-ever protests.
From Issue 3
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...
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?”
A Specter Hangs Over the Hamptons Couch
Inside the Outsider Art fair
On perusing the obscene spectacle of the Outsider Art Fair, a communist declares: abolish the art market!
