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THE LEDE
It Only Took a Moment
November 16, 2024
Sarah H. de Kay From the safe distance of the Chamousseau woods in central France, the Biden...
The Depressometer
November 16, 2024
Susan Zakin The Power of the Powerless is the name of a slim volume written by Vaclav Havel in...
American Crusade
November 16, 2024
Marc Cooper UPDATE: Five minutes after I finished writing this Wednesday afternoon, Matt Gaetz...
The Scapegoats
November 7, 2024
Mo Goldman We all live through our own perspective. My frame of reference is through my work as...
America's Choice
November 7, 2024
Mikal Gilmore Day 1 Today is as hard as anything I’ve known, in either personal or national...
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The Fiction Issue 2024
Lawrence Osborne, MG Vassanji, Elizabeth Evans, Baba Badji
The Boatman
Lawrence Osborne For several years Hilal ran a boat hire out of Qantab beach, taking rich...
Everything There Is
M.G. Vassanji It was January 1972. Pakistan had recently, only the previous month, lost a...
Daniel Ellsberg's Psychiatrist
Elizabeth Evans The following extracts come from the novel DANIEL ELLSBERG’S PSYCHIATRIST by...
Madame Diawara
Baba Badji Chapter Eleven : Aunty Salymata After years, I finally found the courage to go...
FIRST PERSON
Alternate Exit
November 7, 2024
What Really Matters
October 9, 2024
Across the Great Divide
July 20, 2024
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WORLD
YEP, IT'S OUT THERE AND MORE INTERESTING THAN LIFE IN THE U.S.
The Endangered Species Restaurant
Colonialism 3.0
How Putin May Die
Greetings from Maasailand: America's Next Frontier
The Night Raids
ENVIRONMENT
(THE PLANET IS DOOMED, OF COURSE, BUT WE STILL CARE)
Two Questions for Olivia Hill
A Man Who Loved Unfenced Country
The Bronx Ad Guy Who Saved the Grand Canyon
Primitive of a New Art
THE DEAD
That's How Good He Was
October 5, 2024
Maggie Smith
September 28, 2024
Death Comes for the Good, the Bad, and...
December 2, 2023
Winter Comes Down: Shane MacGowan
December 2, 2023
Dianne Feinstein 1933-2023
September 29, 2023
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BOOKS
Deliverance
Surrealistic Pillow Talk
On the Shadowbahn
POETICS
Rows of Desolation
November 17, 2024
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
November 7, 2024
The Yellow Swastikas
November 3, 2024
The Best of All Possible Futures
August 26, 2024
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ART
Border Cantos
First We Take Manhattan
Da Nang
Strange Days: The World is Still Beautiful
40 Days and 40 Nights in Buffalo
STORIES WE LOVE
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The Full Story
July 2, 2024
Follow the Real Estate
The Night Raids
Fall/Winter Issue: ESCAPE

Women With Balls
Blanche McCrary Boyd I don’t know why everyone hasn’t been watching women’s professional...
Jajouka: Burning a Hole in the Night
Brian Cullman “Oh, I went to Jajouka a long, long time ago," Ornette said. "Why?” I was with...
The Searchers
Mike Medberry Jessica Keetso grew up in the shadow of Black Mesa, a high plateau on the Navajo...
Black Mesa 1970
Terrence Moore My involvement with combating the coal mining and power plants in the Four...
Breathless in New York
Steve Erickson Jean-Luc Godard 3 December 1930 - 13 September 2022 The New Wave’s head to...
Tentless in the Rockies
Roger Benham Early morning at our last campsite in the Canadian Rockies, Bow River Provincial...
Lupins
Anna Gotlib Anna Gotlib is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY,...
LONG PLAYER
sometimes it takes more than a meme
The Secret Life of Peter Beard, Part One
The Secret Life of Peter Beard, Part Two
Who the F*** are the Boogaloos?
DREAMING THE PANDEMIC
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Is It Over Yet?
November 3, 2024
Storm Trooper Nightmares
October 17, 2024
Act Three
Paradise
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THE LEDE

The Fiction Issue 2024

Lawrence Osborne, MG Vassanji, Elizabeth Evans, Baba Badji

FIRST PERSON

WORLD

YEP, IT'S OUT THERE AND MORE INTERESTING THAN LIFE IN THE U.S.

ENVIRONMENT

(THE PLANET IS DOOMED, OF COURSE, BUT WE STILL CARE)

THE DEAD

BOOKS

POETICS

ART

STORIES WE LOVE

The Best of Substack & Elsewhere

Yes, we curate. But no table service.

Fall/Winter Issue: ESCAPE

LONG PLAYER

sometimes it takes more than a meme

DREAMING THE PANDEMIC

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