NBCC member Charlotte E. Rosen reviewed Bench Ansfield’s Born in Flames for Protean Magazine:

"The enormous toll of death left its mark on Wasim... He was literally running, Zionist death chasing behind. He pleaded with us to hasten the book’s publication, unsure whether he would live to see it." proteanmag.com/2025/09/23/e...

After the Civil Rights era, racism became legally defined by explicit intent, allowing systemic violence to hide behind insurance “risk” assessments. This piece argues that Ansfield’s "Born in Flames" exposes this racial capitalism. @charlotteerosen.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com

An excerpt of Mousa Alsadah’s foreword to the collected writings of Wasim Said, forthcoming from 1804 Books. Said is a Gazan survivor who, writing as he fled the killing, recorded stories of suffering and terror amidst "generosity, selflessness, truth[.]" proteanmag.com/2025/09/23/e...

An excerpt of Mousa Alsadah’s foreword to the collected writings of Wasim Said, forthcoming from 1804 Books. Said is a Gazan survivor who, writing as he fled the killing, recorded stories of suffering and terror amidst "generosity, selflessness, truth[.]" proteanmag.com/2025/09/23/e...

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This coercion is intended to make us feel as though world-historical events are beyond our grasp, that we have no agency within them and should remain within the status quo, which is only the dailiness...' (from proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...).

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Poet Fadairo Tesleem's "almost a love poem" explores the fervor and agony of being in love while a world collapses around you. proteanmag.com/2025/09/19/a...

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an elegantly argued review (which comes as no surprise, as the author is Charlotte Rosen) on a completely fascinating and morally appalling history. this spree of burning people to death for profit is one of the more grotesque indictments of capital's perverse incentives.

"[T]he arson-for-profit wave of the 1970s, a criminal plot that was the source of enormous windfalls for insurers and landlord co-conspirators[,] resulted in hundreds of deaths and the destruction of thousands of housing units." proteanmag.com/2025/09/07/i...

In "Cetaphil," poet and musician Grant Pavol presents a brief, absurdist vignette that transforms a pharmacy's skincare aisle into a theater of commodity fetishism. proteanmag.com/2025/09/11/c...

An awesome read to begin September. 🍁👻 @kimkelly.bsky.social proteanmag.com/2022/10/31/s...

“[A] blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development.” theguardian.com/world/2025/s... proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

for @proteanmag.com, I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social BORN IN FLAMES, which I found an instructive text for taking a whack at the Abundance movement™️ proteanmag.com/2025/09/07/i...

Charlotte E. Rosen reviews Bench Ansfield's new book "Born in Flames"—a revelatory historical analysis of the systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes perpetrated by landlords and insurance companies in the Bronx of the 1970s. proteanmag.com/2025/09/07/i...

this interview contains a lovely and thoughtful set of reflections on writing, injustice, trees, the land, and a lot more. Lupita Limón Corrales is a talented poet who has previously contributed to Protean; i highly recommend her excellent 2021 piece here: proteanmag.com/2021/06/24/t...

Mallika Singh interviews poet and organizer Lupita Limón Corrales, whose new collection, ESTA BOCA ES MÍA, has now been published by nueoi press. Corrales’s poems, Singh writes, are “a testament to the dissolution of self, to the collective voice.” proteanmag.com/2025/09/02/l...

the atomic cloud story is recirculating, so nows a great time to check out the @proteanmag.com essay and the TrueAnonPod episode we did a while back proteanmag.com/2022/11/28/p...

Print submissions for Protean Magazine: Issue VI are now open. Send us your most affecting poems, or your best essay pitches and/or drafts—we want to read your incisive, rigorous, lyrical critiques of American decay, social pathology, and imperial decline. Guidelines: proteanmag.com/submissions

I still think about this (from 2018!) regularly. So many people reaching seeking solace from the "privilege of an apocalypse" proteanmag.com/2018/12/11/n...

Such a privilege to participate with readings from Palestinian poets & poets across the globe in aid of Gaza. #KeepTellingOfGaza I shared in reading: We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices, by Amanda Najib (proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/w... I also read a poem of mine. ❤️ @sidhepress.bsky.social

This piece by @abbraxas.bsky.social and Justin Feldman is all anyone needs to read about Oster. Share it widely. proteanmag.com/2022/03/22/m...

Urvi Kumbhat reviews the new novel from Vivek Shanbhag. Originally written in Kannada, “Sakina's Kiss” has been translated by Srinath Perur. Trading on romance tropes and genre signals, the book stages a narrative of class traitorship to send up bourgeois hypocrisy. proteanmag.com/2025/08/14/r...

“The journey of the Buford is described by historians as the only mass deportation of political dissidents in U.S. history. So far, this has held true.” proteanmag.com/2025/06/26/t...

Yes.

There’s an excerpt of Dean’s book in Protean Magazine if you’d like to scope it out.

this is a genuinely exquisite piece; i hope you'll read it now that it's online. Kate is comprehensive on Mihelič's fascinating life and work, while using them as a prism to illuminate a dialectic: how life and grief are infused in art, and how art in turn inflects our ways of seeing and our lives.

From Issue V: Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell.bsky.social) on the art and life of Yugoslavian painter France Michelič, known for his depictions of folk deity Kurent. Stamped by the 20th century's trials, he became a searching interpreter of nature, ritual, and death. proteanmag.com/2025/07/25/b...

Reminding me of this proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...

"Yousri Al-Ghoul Talks Back" proteanmag.com/2025/07/08/y...

This piece isn’t specifically about American fascism but important nonetheless proteanmag.com/2023/11/24/l...

This was on my mind as I read this piece by “The Bishop at Peace” by Zoé Samudzi, available here proteanmag.com/2023/... If you haven’t read her work, please do, follow her on IG, etc. She is beyond brilliant. 2/19

I am really excited by the arrival of Andy’s edited book. And I really recommend that you (re)read his fantastic essay from 2024 in @proteanmag.com, “Discipline and Protest” proteanmagstaging.wpcomstaging.com/2024/04/29/d...

wrote last year (it’s finally online) about my favorite artist, the Yugoslav painter France Mihelič for @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2025/07/25/b...

From Issue V: Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell.bsky.social) on the art and life of Yugoslavian painter France Michelič, known for his depictions of folk deity Kurent. Stamped by the 20th century's trials, he became a searching interpreter of nature, ritual, and death. proteanmag.com/2025/07/25/b...

In “i love you more than the law will let me,” poet and journalist Jacqui Germain extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary tenderness. proteanmag.com/2025/07/12/i...

In May, NPR conducted a disastrous interview with Palestinian writer Yousri Al-Ghoul; here, Alex Foley corrects the record, following up with Al-Ghoul about the interview, his life in Gaza, and his real message: condemnation of genocide. https://proteanmag.com/2025/07/08/yousri-al-ghoul-talks-back/

Writing represents an act of resistance: it militates against all that is base and hateful, against death and annihilation. If writing is life, and life itself has turned into war, what more is left for us to write? ~Nasser Rabah, interviewed by Alex Tan proteanmag.com/2025/06/16/t...

it is always a good moment to share fargo nissim tbakhi's incredible piece, but it is especially important now after the proscription of Palestine Action in the UK at the very least please read the section of the piece about 'terrorism' proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...

"Before the Fire Had a Name I had figs in my fists and salt in my braid. Before borders cut the sky, I knew only the hills. We baked bread at dawn, feet planted in the soil as if we were trees, not women. They said I was stubborn. I said I was staying."

In "We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices," poet and organizer Amanda Najib offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine and the diaspora—a generational struggle "to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself." proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/w...

Farewell to The Pink House—depicted here in a piece by 20th Century Collages that appears in Protean Issue IV. Read Luke's Issue IV story, "Newburyport, MA": proteanmag.com/2023/07/31/n...

RIP the Pink House which I wrote about in this one for @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2023/07/31/n...

"You can see that what I am denouncing is the idea of comfortable certainties and soothing convictions. Truth should not give us rest from the search for truth but should stimulate it. Stupidity is not quite the same as error and ignorance." –Frédéric Gros proteanmag.com/2025/05/27/a...

Interview with Frédéric Gros on his newly translated book @versobooks.bsky.social A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion proteanmag.com/2025/05/27/a...