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...

It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

Wondering what work is like for all those tasked with delivering those last-minute Christmas gifts? For @proteanmag.com I wrote this on algorithmic management, logistics work, and the possibilities for class struggle at the tail end of the supply chain x.com/brechtfast/s...

Shane Boyle reviews Craig Gent's Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management. "Rather than representing a step towards scientific perfection, algorithmic management is simply the latest episode in capital’s interminable struggle to subjugate labor." proteanmag.com/2025/12/23/t...

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...

Now you can hear the words, too 🎶⚡️ https://proteanmag.com/2025/12/07/we-never-hear-about-the-fathers-of-birds/ @proteanmag.com

On the drive back I had to stop for a couple of school buses to let all the kids get off to cross the street to get home. Bopping around with their backpacks on. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

"'Solidarity' contains analysis of the dire contemporary situation for children, the author’s reflections on raising a non-binary child in circumstances of fear and threat, [and a look at] how the right weaponizes ideas of 'the child' in the name of parental rights." proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...

In "Live Action Role Play," poet Christopher Blackman considers the linkages among LARPing, imperial decay, and the splendor of a full moon. proteanmag.com/2025/12/18/l...

Andrew Holter interviews Mitchell Abidor on his new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary (@plutopress.bsky.social). "We in the Anglophone world have misunderstood some pretty important things about Serge"—including, Abidor claims, his late-life reactionary turn. proteanmag.com/2025/12/18/v...

saw the term "Richardsonism" on the TL; if you want to read something actually useful about the phenomena of H*ather C*x R*chardson, may I suggest (in @proteanmag.com): proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...

"The colonial machine operates in a frantic, linear time. It is the time of instant reaction, quick escalation, the fatal bullet. It is impatient because it is insecure, convinced its existence can only be secured by shattering the worlds of others." – Bayan Haddad proteanmag.com/2025/12/08/o...

From Mousa Alsadah's forward to 'Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide' by Wasim Said bsky.app/profile/prot...

VIDEO: The team behind @proteanmag.com (@jakeromm.bsky.social, @multiwhirl.bsky.social, @stevanzetti.bsky.social, and @walletcheck.bsky.social) visits our offices in New York City and makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.

Poet Ahmad Ibsais’s “Threadbare in Rafah” narrates the steadfastness of Palestinian children against the unimaginable terrors of Israel’s genocide. proteanmag.com/2025/12/10/t...

Bayan Haddad (@BayanHaddad) remembers her former student Oudeh Hathaleen—a Palestinian teacher, father, and community leader, murdered by an Israeli settler. Haddad testifies against the inhuman colonial violence that was the antithesis of Oudeh's spirit. proteanmag.com/2025/12/08/o...

Bayan Haddad (@BayanHaddad) remembers her former student Oudeh Hathaleen—a Palestinian teacher, father, and community leader, murdered by an Israeli settler. Haddad testifies against the inhuman colonial violence that was the antithesis of Oudeh's spirit. proteanmag.com/2025/12/08/o...

"to be a citizen what else what else could it mean to have such privilege of sitting still in silence when being asked to when being asked to live & to live & to live without having to say you are welcome" - @chriscampanioni.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com

Poet Chris Campanioni's "we never hear about the fathers of birds" explores the contradictory ways the self is formed, concluding that "the rich // confusion between a thing & / I arrives always / through violence." proteanmag.com/2025/12/07/w...

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