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Issue Seventeen is here! 🧵
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Ahmed Naji
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Very very very good story at last issue of
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Bergotte
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Legitimately great poem in
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Hadn't read Lynn before and now searching up many, many more poems
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The narrator of Hannah Kingsley-Ma’s Issue Seventeen story “Independent Living” takes a final trip to the retirement home where his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend’s grandmother lives.
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Independent Living
Fiction
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Our Issue 17 launch party is next week! Featuring readings from Emma Adler, Lily Gabaree, Ismail Ibrahim, Adam Judah Krasnoff,
@meganmarz.bsky.social
, Gracie Newman, Caroline Porter, Maia Silber, Kion You, and Ege Yumuşak. Join us at NeueHouse on May 14 at 7 p.m.
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The Syllabus
9 days ago
Chomsky’s relationship with Epstein exposes a contradiction at the heart of his work: Chomsky often shows open disdain for the masses. This piece contends that this elitist pessimism undercuts his commitment to collective struggle. By
@erikmbaker.bsky.social
in
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The Judgment of the Masses
Chomsky was incapable of glimpsing anything but media brainwashing stirring up the irrationality of the masses against his friend. In “the public domain,” Chomsky told Epstein, “innuendo and…
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Erik Baker
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New installment of Sophie Haigney's advice column on when wandering attention is actually a problem (perhaps less often than you think)
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How do I stop wasting my attention?
The Drift’s advice column #4
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“Attention paid to the past, to dreams, to the strange things that pop into your head while you’re doing nothing — that’s the stuff of life!” Sophie Haigney’s April advice column considers the blurry line between attention and distraction.
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How do I stop wasting my attention?
The Drift’s advice column #4
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/how-do-i-stop-wasting-my-attention
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Brittany K. Allen
13 days ago
really digging this piece on the conundrum of historical revisions onstage, from Emma Adler
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History Has Its Eyes on You
<i>Slam Frank</i> and Musical Theater’s <i>Hamilton</i> Bind
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“It’s the same people, the same thumbs on the same phone, doing all those things.” Read our roundtable discussion on Jeffrey Epstein and our predatory elite with Brace Belden,
@drboguslaw.bsky.social
,
@azbrodsky.bsky.social
, and Anand Giridharadas
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“The Ultimate Conspiracy of Patriarchy”
A Conversation with Brace Belden, Daniel Boguslaw, Alexandra Brodsky, and Anand Giridharadas
https://www.thedriftmag.com/the-ultimate-conspiracy-of-patriarchy/
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Felicity Callard
23 days ago
This is fascinating on the dream logics, the figure of the wounded child, and the pulsation of the unconscious through the image worlds of Trump 2.0
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Felicity Callard
23 days ago
Caught up with Yoni Gelernter's essay on the logic of Zionism in
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Aaron Wistar
19 days ago
“I don’t want to be a fraud. I don’t want to die. Those shouldn’t be the only two options” — a food service worker on the cruelty of means testing, from Maia Silber,
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the_beka
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“Is it cucked and soy to point out that Greenland and Antarctica are on opposite sides of the globe?” Mitch Therieau asks in an essay on the Trump team’s visual production.
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Into the Right-Wing Dreamworld
DHS’s Regime of Images
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Longreads
17 days ago
In the latest edition of our Top 5: —Death traps (
@thebeliever.net
) —Derring-do detectives (
@nybooks.com
) —Drivel inspection (
@thedriftmag.com
) —Deforestation? Not in my back yard! (
@inthesetimes.com
) —Dissonance appreciation (
@newyorker.com
)
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads
Deaths in donation bins, the Hardy boys, MAGA slop, billionaire playgrounds, and nostalgia for the complicated.
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Riffy Bol
18 days ago
"Dream logic: at the crossroads between mythic fascist notions of collective will and dully literal American individualism, today’s right-wing imagination chooses both"
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Into the Right-Wing Dreamworld
DHS’s Regime of Images
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Aaron Wistar
14 days ago
Employee stock ownership plans sound great; in practice, they often foist assets of dubious future value on workers in exchange for immediate concessions on wages and conditions. Great piece from Francis Northwood in
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Join us on May 14 for our Issue Seventeen launch party!
18 days ago
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Read Issue Seventeen Mentions from
@cryinmeehan.bsky.social
,
@arh12.bsky.social
,
@elvia-wilk.bsky.social
,
@emotrophywife.bsky.social
and more.
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Issue 17
Extremely abbreviated reviews
https://www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issue-17/
20 days ago
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“Neanderthals tumors you and me and nuclear bombs” —Abou Farman. Read all the poetry in Issue Seventeen.🧵
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Nuclear Magnetic
Poetry
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“‘It’s just like normal porn,’ he said, ‘except you’re the guy getting his dick sucked.” —Caroline Porter Read all the fiction in Issue Seventeen🧵
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Devochka
Fiction
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Sarah Brouillette
21 days ago
My brief contribution is about Substack. Many thanks to the incredible team at The Drift.
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Edward Ongweso Jr
21 days ago
For
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I wrote about social control, digital infrastructure, and what passes for a public sphere in our society
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Directing the Herd
Social media platforms don’t produce a common public; they produce competing sub-publics, each with its own sense of what everyone knows.
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Erik Baker
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Issue Seventeen of
@thedriftmag.com
is now out in full online. Read our editor's note, an apologia for paranoia, here
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Editors’ Note
The House Never Chickens Out
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In our essays section, Max Norman assesses Karl Ove Knausgaard’s swerve from realism in his new series.
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Roman-Flood
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Diabolic Realism
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Issue Seventeen is here! 🧵
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Erik Baker
21 days ago
For our new issue, I wrote about Chomsky's friendship with Epstein and the political risks of his thinking on propaganda
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The Judgment of the Masses
Chomsky was incapable of glimpsing anything but media brainwashing stirring up the irrationality of the masses against his friend. In “the public domain,” Chomsky told Epstein, “innuendo and suspicion...
https://www.thedriftmag.com/the-judgment-of-the-masses/
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In Issue 17’s Dispatches section,
@tarpley.bsky.social
, Noelle Bodick,
@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
,
@edwardongwesojr.com
,
@erikmbaker.bsky.social
, Ege Yumuşak, Ismail Ibrahim,
@meganmarz.bsky.social
, and
@samadlerbell.bsky.social
examine the public sphere.
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A Nicely Situated Ideal
Dispatches on the Public Sphere
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Max Norman’s Issue Seventeen essay examines Karl Ove Knausgaard’s evolution from autofictional hyperrealism to the philosophical semi-fantasy of the Morning Star novels. Read the essay online today.
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Roman-Flood
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Diabolic Realism
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Andrew Holter
25 days ago
I'm in the new
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with a bit on the
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edition of John Berger and Jean Mohr's A Seventh Man
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Issue Seventeen's Mentions are out today! Read to discover the identity of "the world’s least charismatic carnival barker"
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Issue 17
Extremely abbreviated reviews
https://www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issue-17/
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Erik Baker
26 days ago
Scintillating new story out today about everyone's favorite subjects: VR porn and Siberia
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Devochka
Fiction
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DJ Alan Cumming, jai alai on Instagram, and a new coterie of oafs and cretins: read Issue Seventeen’s Mentions, by
@emotrophywife.bsky.social
,
@cryinmeehan.bsky.social
,
@andrewrihn.bsky.social
,
@elvia-wilk.bsky.social
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Issue 17
Extremely abbreviated reviews
https://www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issue-17/
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In “Devochka,” Caroline Porter’s Issue Seventeen short story, a young woman’s V.R. porn binge leads her to revisit memories of studying abroad in Siberia. Read online now, and be sure to subscribe by the end of the day to receive a copy of the full issue.
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Devochka
Fiction
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Kevin
28 days ago
Terrific commentary on the dreams of the young Right.
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In the Trumpian dreamworld,
@mitchtherieau.bsky.social
writes in a new Issue Seventeen preview, “opposites converge: insanity and reason, self-actualization and self-annihilation, Jedi and Stormtrooper, bootstraps and jackboots, North Pole and South.”
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Into the Right-Wing Dreamworld
DHS’s Regime of Images
https://www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-right-wing-dreamworld/
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In Julia Kornberg’s “The Blonde,” our first fiction preview from Issue Seventeen, a pair of internet friends meet up in real life, with unanticipated results. Read online today.
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The Blonde
Fiction
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“From its earliest days,” Maia Silber writes in our first Issue Seventeen preview piece, “America’s welfare system has forced its beneficiaries to lie not only for their survival, but also for its own survival.”
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Fraud with Benefits
How Breaking the Rules Makes Welfare Work
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about 1 month ago
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In the March installment of our advice column, Sophie Haigney responds to a questioner’s “desire for an artistic and intellectual life that transcends the cold machinery of money.”
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Can I make a living from my art without killing the romance?
The Drift's advice column #3
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/can-i-make-a-living-from-my-art-without
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Congratulations to The Drift’s Senior Editor
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! His book, “Make Your Own Job,” just won the 2026 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award from the Organization of American Historians.
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In 2024,
@laurenleblanc.bsky.social
wrote a Mention for The Drift on Nancy Lemann’s long-out-of-print book “The Ritz of the Bayou,” which helped lead to its republication on April 7. She spoke with Lemann for our newsletter today.
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"A spark so divine is not easily extinguished"
A Q&A with Nancy Lemann
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/a-spark-so-divine-is-not-easily-extinguished
about 2 months ago
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Today in the newsletter, associate editor Max Norman revisits David Schurman Wallace’s examination of the afterlives of John Ashbery and the role of social media in shaping encounters with poetry today.
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The anxiety of influencers
Why read John Ashbery?
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-anxiety-of-influencers
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Can always count on
@seamus-malekafzali.com
to say what needs to be said
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The legacy of Obama's drone wars
Who paved the road to Trump's war?
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy-of-obamas-drone-wars
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“The precedent that Obama’s militarism solidified has only become more and more malignant as Trump has moved through his presidency,” writes
@seamus-malekafzali.com
in a new piece on the aerial forever wars.
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The legacy of Obama's drone wars
Who paved the road to Trump's war?
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy-of-obamas-drone-wars
about 2 months ago
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An overly cheery exclamation point, a million-dollar wine cellar, winning the war with yourself, and more – read Mentions from Ben Gottlieb,
@amkdurie.bsky.social
, Will Dukes, Sam Ross, Olivia Noble, Jake Indursky, and Charlie Cockburn
www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
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Mentions
Extremely abbreviated reviews
https://www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
about 2 months ago
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Today in the newsletter, a sharp dispatch from across the pond by Oliver Eagleton on the prospects of the electoral left in the UK
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Are the Greens for real?
A dispatch on UK politics by Oliver Eagleton
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/are-the-greens-for-real
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“There is a sense that the spirit of resistance which defeated the establishment in Greater Manchester might soon spread across the country.” Today in our newsletter, Oliver Eagleton reports on the surprising rise of the Green Party in the UK.
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Are the Greens for real?
A dispatch on UK politics by Oliver Eagleton
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/are-the-greens-for-real
about 2 months ago
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Thank you to all who joined us last night for a discussion about Epstein, to our panelists (
@drboguslaw.bsky.social
, Brace Belden,
@azbrodsky.bsky.social
,
@anandwrites.bsky.social
), and to The Bell House for hosting us!
2 months ago
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“I feel excited about the possibilities presented by the feeling that there isn’t much left to lose,” says “Down Time” author Andrew Martin in conversation with Drift co-editor Rebecca Panovka.
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Bad for people, great for fiction
A Q&A with Andrew Martin
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/bad-for-people-great-for-fiction
2 months ago
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We are launching our first-ever internship program this summer! Visit our website for more details. Applications are due by April 10.
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Erik Baker
2 months ago
Soooooo proud of this recognition - what amazing company. I'm so happy that this will draw attention to these amazing stories!
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