“Nothing will get better until Zionism is defeated—not until there’s a Palestinian state, until Zionism, as the ideological machine that produces Israel, that produces these policies of murder & genocide & destruction, is defeated.” @proteanmag.com essential reading: proteanmag.com/2026/04/02/h...

"The problem historically with Western Leftists, is they oppose oppression, but they don’t want you to win." Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah on enduring sovereignty and coloniality proteanmag.com/2026/04/02/h...

"What risk. What sound. What weapon. [...] What stillness. What screams. What loss. What disbelief. What grief." - Sara Abou Rashed proteanmag.com/2026/03/23/i...

Alex Colston reviews Anton Jäger's "Hyperpolitics," filling in gaps in the book's short argument and arguing for the importance of political formations and activities independent of official political society. proteanmag.com/2026/03/26/h...

In anticipation of our upcoming reading and conversation, we're thrilled to present two new poems by George Abraham on Palestinian resistance, queer rage, and writing through the wreckage of US empire: "Poems, useless as Americans." proteanmag.com/2026/03/25/t...

In austere, fragmented lines, Sara Abou Rashed's poem "It Comes Down to This" memorializes Shireen Abu Akleh and the hundreds of Palestinian journalists martyred by the Israeli state. proteanmag.com/2026/03/23/i...

If you're in North Texas, come grab a copy of Protean and a limited edition print at the Art Book Fair at the Dallas Contemporary museum, from 12pm-5pm today and Sunday!

In "DOME EACH IRIS," poet Jess Liu creates a sonic landscape that dramatizes capital's plasticization of everyday life. proteanmag.com/2026/03/18/d...

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For @proteanmag.com, I interviewed Mitchell Abidor about his new Pluto Press biography of Victor Serge, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, kind of a bombshell account for what it reveals about the importance of Serge’s early anarchist years and his late anticommunism.

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hard as fuck. 21st century classic

"People with wireframe glasses like mine seem to have a lot riding on this movie being really good." proteanmag.com/2026/02/24/t...

This is the best take I’ve seen on OBAA, which I wanted to like; I certainly love PTA, and I loved Inherent Vice. But transposing a ‘60s vision of urban leftist guerrilla activism in the present just feels really odd; doubly so when those movements petered out to such little effect.

A.C. Corey unpacks the misguided revolutionary and cinematic hopes pinned on Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another"—each an expression of left melancholia and mania, of political and cultural restlessness, of the fantasy of resolution. proteanmag.com/2026/02/24/t...

from @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social's 'Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic' (April 2025), which I return to over & over @proteanmag.com shorturl.at/SYDkx

"Algorithmic management is 'a way of organising work in which workers are directed, tracked and assessed—all at once, in real time—by a computer system[.]' Tendrils of this managerial regime are now creeping into offices, universities, even hospitals." –Shane Boyle proteanmag.com/2025/12/23/t...

Richard Hell's novel Godlike has been re-released by NYRB Classics. Andrew Holter spoke to Hell on his literary trajectory, the inevitable Rimbaud and (Tom) Verlaine comparisons (and other noms de plume), the New York School poets, and his fearlessness of influence. proteanmag.com/2026/02/13/a...

Richard Hell's novel Godlike has been re-released by NYRB Classics. Andrew Holter spoke to Hell on his literary trajectory, the inevitable Rimbaud and (Tom) Verlaine comparisons (and other noms de plume), the New York School poets, and his fearlessness of influence. proteanmag.com/2026/02/13/a...

It's a sequence of poems written as answers to questions that children from Gaza asked the staff of the Palestine Trauma Centre (UK)

will the dogs that ate the dead bodies of the martyrs turn into humans?

In "red script of questions," poet Ali Choudhary creates a harrowing dialogue with the children of Gaza as they continue to endure Israel's genocide. proteanmag.com/2026/02/11/r...

"In Rafah lies a girl And for this girl, a brother And for this brother, a kite made of cloth scraps And for the cloth, a seam stitched by their mother And for the stitch, a spool of red thread— still rolling across the broken tiles..." – Ahmad Ibsais proteanmag.com/2025/12/10/t...

“The Serge that I love is the individualist anarchist. That, I think, was the best Serge.” Mitch Abidor interviewed for @proteanmag.com on his new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary: proteanmag.com/2025/12/18/v...

Karl Marx considered moving to Texas when he was in his 20s. proteanmag.com/2024/08/11/m...

My essay on Abdaljawad's writings and Palestinian resistance is my attempt to answer the question that Fargo Tbakhi asked us in December 2023: 'What does Palestine require of us, as writers writing in English from within the imperial core, in this moment of genocide?' proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...

⟨from the excerpt in Protean Magazine ↑⟩ "This society held onto its image of itself [ ] its moral and cultural system. A significant part of it refused to let go, as if echoing Wasim’s search for the meaning of life, but at the scale of an entire people, the Palestinian people."

A sonnet for one of my favourite beasts, originally published in Fourteen Magazine a year or two ago!

If writing can accomplish anything anymore (or ever could), it’s writing like this: proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

the people yearn for bones proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

2025 was a helluva year for @proteanmag.com – and, if you are able to, you absolutely should chip in to support their work over the ✨year ahead✨, imo. it's become a tired cliché, but no less accurate to point out: truly independent, high-quality, leftist media could not be more indispensable.

Long and great article with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing @triofrancos.bsky.social! Can't wait for Riofancos to write about her views on JB Fressoz book about energy transitions. Will lithium be yet another material added in the symbiosis? @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

Emily Oster is aligned with Conservatives on nearly every important health issue: proteanmag.com/2022/03/22/m...

Haven’t read yet but reminded me of your post: bsky.app/profile/prot...

"All the while more and more bones still stacking up underhill with no sign of the stolen ones yet So America said what’s spoken is what is even in possession So America says but what’s seen is another matter." – Ian Maxton, "The Possession" proteanmag.com/2025/04/08/t...

“Recoiling from the crudity of global politics-as-property-development while pining for the “rules-based international order”—the reflex of the very centrist international elites that primed the world for Trump and his ilk—is an exercise in futility”

This book by @lukeoneil47.bsky.social is full of beautiful, gut-wrenching prose. I'd call it Cormac McCarthy-esque.

'Across the Occupied Palestinian Territories, we see a particular kind of real estate development thriving in the absence of territorial integrity and sovereign political authority'

This year marked the 8th anniversary of Protean's founding; it was also our busiest yet. Below is a selection of the best work that we published, online and in Issue V. As ever, readers' generosity is the only reason any of this is possible. Support us by becoming a patron: patreon.com/proteanmag

"Frontier names a duality where the place is important but the people are unimportant" Two brilliant scholars @triofrancos.bsky.social@lalehkhalili.bsky.social in conversation, highly recommended! proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

A good interview here at @proteanmag.com with Mitchell Abidor, whose new book on Victor Serge I'm looking forward to reading, though the revelations of Serge's apparent late-life anti-communism etc. are tough, as I admire so much of his writing. proteanmag.com/2025/12/18/v...

From “Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide” by Fargo Tbakhi in @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2023/... 4/4

Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social (at @proteanmag.com)

As I'm bombarded with algorithmically served advertisements aimed to induce me to purchase more consumer goods this holiday season, I am reflecting on this essay I wrote six years ago for @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2019/08/28/s...

In this wide-ranging interview, Laleh Khalili (@lalehkhalili.bsky.social) speaks with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) about her new book, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"—on lithium mining, prospects for a just climate transition, and more. proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...