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Contra Contra

What does it mean to actually want power?

Geopolitics of the Sahel

Recent coups in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have produced the Alliance of Sahelian States (AES). Why is it aligning with Russia?

Biding Time

Bidenomics vs. the green industrial policy we deserve
Futon
Futon

Faultlines

Johannesburg | South Africa

Vulnerable Chic

Bern | Switzerland

High Theory as Such

San Francisco, CA | USA
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Back Pages

Egypt’s Season of Starlets

In the 1940s and 1950s, all of Egypt was transfixed by the divas of its rising film and radio industries

Bored Women

The ennui, the humor, the horror, the canon of women's boredom in literature

The Ballad of Glanton Dowdell

An excerpt from The Black Utopians
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Barry Jenkins’s Cinematic Technique

A formal analysis of If Beale Street Could Talk

Back Pages Issue 1 Poetry

Pharmacy Poems

Joseph Grantham

Back Pages Issue 1 Profiles Reporting

Buy Boltcutters!

Robert Evans and journalism as activism

Mary Steffenhagen

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Permanent Handstamp

Life at the center of the edge of 90s music

Back Pages Issue 1 Reviews The Triple Review

Retro Shock

When the world's a cyberpunk dystopia, where does the genre go next?

Elizabeth Sandifer

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Bloodless Board Games, Covert Colonialisms

On the imperial gaze in tabletop gaming

Back Pages Reviews

The Former Essayist

On the decline of Wesley Yang