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  • THE LEDE

    The more you make people suffer for their beliefs, the more they will be willing

    to suffer, until the suffering becomes the belief.

      

    —- Michael Thomas, "Babylon on a Thin Wire"

    October 9, 2024
    David Weir I’m not sure that I ever fully appreciated it at the time — in fact, I’m quite sure...
    October 5, 2024
    Steve Jones In the 1990s, I was in a band called The Unforgiven. I was this rock’n’roller kid...
    Susan Zakin The headline on the financial advice website was just slightly macabre: “Are Parent...
    September 28, 2024
    Richard Grant In the mesquite-dotted hills of southern Arizona, eleven miles from the Mexican...
    September 1, 2024
    Susan Zakin It’s so easy to quote from Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, The True Believer it feels like...
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  • The Fiction Issue 2024

    Lawrence Osborne, MG Vassanji, Elizabeth Evans, Baba Badji

    Lawrence Osborne For several years Hilal ran a boat hire out of Qantab beach, taking rich...
    M.G. Vassanji It was January 1972. Pakistan had recently, only the previous month, lost a...
    Elizabeth Evans The following extracts come from the novel DANIEL ELLSBERG’S PSYCHIATRIST by...
    Baba Badji Chapter Eleven : Aunty Salymata After years, I finally found the courage to go...
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    Blanche McCrary Boyd I don’t know why everyone hasn’t been watching women’s professional...
    Brian Cullman “Oh, I went to Jajouka a long, long time ago," Ornette said. "Why?” I was with...
    Mike Medberry Jessica Keetso grew up in the shadow of Black Mesa, a high plateau on the Navajo...
    Terrence Moore My involvement with combating the coal mining and power plants in the Four...
    Steve Erickson Jean-Luc Godard 3 December 1930 - 13 September 2022 The New Wave’s head to...
    Roger Benham Early morning at our last campsite in the Canadian Rockies, Bow River Provincial...
    Anna Gotlib Anna Gotlib is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY,...
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