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Issue Sixteen is here! 🧵
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In his Issue Sixteen essay, Max Hancock examines the new simulation technology that’s coming to make your job worse.
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Model Employees
The Dawn of Digital Twins
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A pro-bug barback meme account, a full-time consumer of opium, an abyss that was once a mountain, Sigma Mussolini, and an onslaught of memories — read a new batch of Mentions by Lev Mamuya, Brian Harkin, Colin Lodewick, Tiffany Berruti, and
@jamieyouwere.bsky.social
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Mentions
Extremely abbreviated reviews
https://www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
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“A pig in the shape of me goes to the gas station.” Read Kathleen Ma’s Issue Sixteen poem “Battle Creek.”
www.thedriftmag.com/battle-creek/
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Battle Creek
Poetry
https://www.thedriftmag.com/battle-creek/
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Excellent piece in the newsletter today from our Minneapolis comrade Pranay Somayajula on developing mass protagonism in response to the DHS assault
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Fighting for the future in occupied Minneapolis
On resisting ICE
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/fighting-for-the-future-in-occupied
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“Expressions of solidarity have become a feature of daily life in the Twin Cities,” writes Minneapolis organizer Pranay Somayajula in a new piece on fighting back against ICE.
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Fighting for the future in occupied Minneapolis
On resisting ICE
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/fighting-for-the-future-in-occupied
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Erik Baker
11 days ago
The great Sophie Haigney is writing an advice column for our newsletter! Send in your questions to
[email protected]
with “Advice” in the subject line.
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Am I okay? Am I healthy? Am I happy?
Introducing a new advice column by Sophie Haigney
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Introducing a new advice column from Sophie Haigney! “I hope to be conclusive in ways that are surprising and that might not supply what the person asking or reading the question hopes to hear,” she writes.
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Am I okay? Am I healthy? Am I happy?
Introducing a new advice column
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/am-i-okay-am-i-healthy-am-i-happy
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A diapered man-baby, a wisp of a gothic tale, an attempted magnum opus, a gargantuan Bey, and the demon Pazuzu — read a new batch of Mentions by Abigail Gray, Rhoda Feng, Ben Sloan, Gabe Abdellatif, and Pete Segal
www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
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Mentions
Extremely abbreviated reviews
https://www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
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“Love Language,” Will Hall’s Issue Sixteen short story, imagines a dating show on which contestants aren’t able to speak directly to their prospective mates.
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Love Language
Fiction
https://www.thedriftmag.com/love-language/
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The Mormon tradwife behind the infamous Ballerina Farm, star-crossed lovers, and Susan Sontag’s sexual conquests — read a libidinous selection of Issue 16 Mentions from Zach Ngin,
@dianamheald.bsky.social
,
@izzyampil.bsky.social
, Mathias Fuelling, and Krithika Varagur
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Mentions
Extremely abbreviated reviews
https://www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
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“He believed that she could desire him, wattled neck and all, and might willingly lick the penis that dangled below his belly like the cord tugged to inflate a life vest.” Read Elisa Gonzalez’s razor-sharp story “The Wife” in Issue Sixteen:
www.thedriftmag.com/the-wife/
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The Wife
Fiction
https://www.thedriftmag.com/the-wife/
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Our Issue Sixteen Dispatches examine what gets in the way of access to healthy and sustainably produced food, from California to Venezuela, the New York prison system, Gaza, and beyond. Read them all today.
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Dignity and Access
There is enough food grown each year to feed ten billion people. And yet, the global economy is simply not getting everyone fed.
https://www.thedriftmag.com/dignity-and-access/
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Erik Baker
21 days ago
"To those currently in power, the U.S. doesn’t even need to claim to uphold higher principles — they would be wasted on the ungrateful." -
@seamus-malekafzali.com
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Erik Baker
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I will be reading from this piece this evening! Come join us.
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Our Issue Sixteen launch party is TONIGHT from 7 p.m. on at the White Horse Tavern in the Financial District (25 Bridge Street). Hope to see you there!
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Drift contributor Madeline Cash’s hilarious and tender debut novel Lost Lambs is out today. Our Associate Fiction Editor Livia Wood spoke with her about the book.
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"Ordinary people fall short in recognizable ways"
A Q&A with Madeline Cash
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/ordinary-people-fall-short-in-recognizable
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Erik Baker
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Great piece in the newsletter today by the one and only
@seamus-malekafzali.com
on media cowardice in the aftermath of the American power grab in Venezuela
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When the media is less honest than Trump
On coverage of the Maduro kidnapping
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Even as “Trump has dropped almost all pretenses regarding the United States’s real designs, the media seems determined to keep the consent-manufacturing machine running.” Read
@seamus-malekafzali.com
on media coverage of the Maduro kidnapping:
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When the media is less honest than Trump
On coverage of the Maduro kidnapping
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/when-the-media-is-less-honest-than
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Erik Baker
about 1 month ago
Hope to see you in New York next week!
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Our Issue Sixteen party is one week away! Featuring readings by
@andycawley.bsky.social
, Daniel Yadin, Elisa Gonzalez,
@erikmbaker.bsky.social
,
@alienvsrobbins.bsky.social
, Katie Way, Max Hancock, Mimi Diamond, Pranay Somayajula,
@seamus-malekafzali.com
, and Yoni Gelernter.
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“Aphrodite’s like sigh what now / Sappho, what’s your crazy heart / want now?” Read “Domme Song 5” by
@alienvsrobbins.bsky.social
in Issue Sixteen.
www.thedriftmag.com/domme-song-5/
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Domme Song 5
Poetry
https://www.thedriftmag.com/domme-song-5/
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In the West Bank, Jasper Nathaniel writes in today’s newsletter, the “Israeli occupation bars Palestinians from maintaining their own heritage sites, then cites the resulting deterioration as justification for taking them.”
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Israel's archaeological apartheid: an update
A new report from Jasper Nathaniel
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/israels-archaeological-apartheid
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We’re grateful to everyone who spent time with our work this year. Don’t miss our most-read pieces of 2025!
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Save the date: join us on January 14 to celebrate Issue Sixteen!
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In today’s newsletter, James Wood charts the course of the political year in thirty insults:
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The Year in Thirty Insults
The following insults loosely chart the course of the political year.
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-year-in-thirty-insults
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We’ll be at Pioneer Works for Press Play on Sunday, Dec. 14 from 12-7pm. Come say hi!
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This year, we were proud to publish eleven short stories. In the newsletter today, we reflect on the writers and editors who make our fiction section possible. We hope you’ll read or revisit our 2025 fiction, and consider donating to our magazine.
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The year in Drift fiction
Plus: subscribe today to receive Issue Sixteen
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-year-in-drift-fiction
about 2 months ago
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The Drift holiday sale continues! Today is the last day to subscribe to receive Issue Sixteen in the mail, and the last day to order merch to ensure it will arrive before Christmas.
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"Digital twins are palliatives — they treat the symptoms, not the causes, of flagging productivity growth." Max Hancock for
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Model Employees
The Dawn of Digital Twins
https://www.thedriftmag.com/model-employees/
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“Masochistic and even suicidal fantasy has always accompanied Israeli violence,” Yoni Gelertner writes in his Issue Sixteen essay on the mythology of Masada.
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The Masada Option
Zionism’s Death Drive
https://www.thedriftmag.com/the-masada-option/
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LPE Blog
2 months ago
In
@thedriftmag.com
, an interview with
@stschrader1.bsky.social
on abolition, copaganda, and the porous line between the military and law enforcement.
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“Our Diminished Epoch”
Stuart Schrader, Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism at Johns Hopkins University, is a leading scholar ...
https://www.thedriftmag.com/our-diminished-epoch/
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“I find it ridiculous and inimical to democracy that police have veto power over elected officials’ decisions, and that politicians therefore need to walk on eggshells so as not to offend them.” Read our interview with
@stschrader1.bsky.social
in Issue Sixteen.
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“Our Diminished Epoch”
Stuart Schrader, Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism at Johns Hopkins University, is a leading scholar ...
https://www.thedriftmag.com/our-diminished-epoch/
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Tyler McBrien
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The first industrial revolution gave capitalists steam power and mechanization, the second electricity and the assembly line, and the third computers. "The fourth, apparently, will let middle management play The Sims." Go read Max's brilliant
@thedriftmag.com
piece on digital twins!
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Erik Baker
2 months ago
Issue Sixteen of The Drift is now online for your reading pleasure!
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Issue 16
Consider the horror. The theater of diplomacy and the drama of deal-making. An event like birth or bike riding. A minor skirmish in the class war.
https://www.thedriftmag.com/issue/issue-16/
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michael röbbins
2 months ago
I have two new poems in
@thedriftmag.com
today 🫶
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Issue Sixteen is here! 🧵
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Erik Baker
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Volumeheads: A new Q&A with the one and only Solvej Balle in our newsletter today
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"Autumn came with the idea, somehow"
A Q&A with Solvej Balle, author of On the Calculation of Volume
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/autumn-came-with-the-idea-somehow
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New today: a Q&A with Solvej Balle, author of “On the Calculation of Volume”
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"Autumn came with the idea, somehow"
A Q&A with Solvej Balle, author of On the Calculation of Volume
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/autumn-came-with-the-idea-somehow
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Both novels we excerpted in Issue Fifteen made the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2025 list. Congrats to Stephanie Wambugu and Solvej Balle!
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Happy holidays from The Drift! Everything in our shop is 25 percent off until January, including subscriptions. Subscribe today to get Issue Sixteen in your mailbox.
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“All toys ‘are essentially a microcosm of the adult world.’” Read associate editor Tarpley Hitt on her new book, “Barbieland: The Unauthorized History,” and grab a ticket to our launch event at McNally Jackson Seaport on December 3.
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Barbies at the Gate
A new book by The Drift's Mentions czar
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/barbies-at-the-gate
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“His name is Henry Dale, and I don’t need to tell him that time has ground to a halt,” reads an excerpt from Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume Book III,” which is out today. “He already knows.”
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Day #1144, #1167, #1403
Fiction
https://www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167-1403/
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Ben Railton
3 months ago
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th
#ScholarSunday
thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 250! (11/16/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more ...
https://blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunday-thread-250-11-16-25/
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C. E. Aubin
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I have read a LOT of romantasy out of an intense and abiding fascination/need to understand What The Hell Is Going On With Women In My Age Group. This essay from
@thedriftmag.com
really nails it, without the sneering you usually find in litcrit on the genre.
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Escape Artists
Romantasy at the End of the World
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Really loved this piece on romantasy, a genre I have enjoyed that also feels like the death knell of a certain level of popular literacy
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“The heroines of romantasy are flicked, nuzzled, ridden, throttled, bitten, pulled, plowed, hit, filled, soaked, and — here’s a Maas favorite — shattered.” Daniel Yadin examines the genre taking over American publishing in a new piece from Issue Sixteen.
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Escape Artists
Romantasy at the End of the World
https://www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artists/
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“The only durable response to Sudan’s famine lies with its own civilians, who must be empowered to resist the militarization of hunger,” Shahad Elfaki argues in a new Dispatch from Issue Sixteen.
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A Grotesque Deadlock
Since the outbreak of war in Sudan in April 2023, nearly thirteen million people have been internally displaced and prices in Darfur have soared.
https://www.thedriftmag.com/a-grotesque-deadlock/
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Becky Hammer
3 months ago
Once again had trouble narrowing down my four favorite mini-reviews in the latest issue of The Drift
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