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.” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/israels-ar...

We’re grateful to everyone who spent time with our work this year. Don’t miss our most-read pieces of 2025!

Save the date: join us on January 14 to celebrate Issue Sixteen!

In today’s newsletter, James Wood charts the course of the political year in thirty insults: newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-year-i...

We’ll be at Pioneer Works for Press Play on Sunday, Dec. 14 from 12-7pm. Come say hi!

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. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-year-i...

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. www.thedriftmag.com/subscribe/ shop.thedriftmag.com

"Digital twins are palliatives — they treat the symptoms, not the causes, of flagging productivity growth." Max Hancock for @thedriftmag.com: www.thedriftmag.com/model-employ...

“Masochistic and even suicidal fantasy has always accompanied Israeli violence,” Yoni Gelertner writes in his Issue Sixteen essay on the mythology of Masada. www.thedriftmag.com/the-masada-o...

In @thedriftmag.com, an interview with @stschrader1.bsky.social on abolition, copaganda, and the porous line between the military and law enforcement.

“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. www.thedriftmag.com/our-diminish...

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!

Issue Sixteen of The Drift is now online for your reading pleasure! www.thedriftmag.com/issue/issue-...

I have two new poems in @thedriftmag.com today 🫶 www.thedriftmag.com/domme-song-5/

Issue Sixteen is here! 🧵

Volumeheads: A new Q&A with the one and only Solvej Balle in our newsletter today newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/autumn-cam...

New today: a Q&A with Solvej Balle, author of “On the Calculation of Volume” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/autumn-cam...

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!

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. www.thedriftmag.com/subscribe/

“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. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/barbies-at...

“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.” www.thedriftmag.com/day1144-1167...

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! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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. www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...

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

“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. www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...

“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. www.thedriftmag.com/a-grotesque-...

Once again had trouble narrowing down my four favorite mini-reviews in the latest issue of The Drift @thedriftmag.com

“The memory of my own voice would come back to me, the way I’d hurled it around: my father, my father, my father.” Read Mimi Diamond’s Issue Sixteen story, online today: www.thedriftmag.com/good-health/

Join us, @ndbooks.bsky.social, Krithika Varagur, Zain Khalid, Sloane Crosley, and Rob Franklin, on November 18 to celebrate the publication of the newest installment of Solvej Balle’s series “On the Calculation of Volume.” www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/calcul...

Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. (...) The things we can accomplish together are, by definition, within our sphere of control, even if we have to act through structures that are bigger than any of us alone to achieve them. By @erikmbaker

ICYMI, my latest essay in @thedriftmag.com, which also serves as a postscript of sorts to Make Your Own Job www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

I have an essay on self-help, the "philosophy" industry, and human finitude in our new issue. As Dylan said of "Tangled Up In Blue," it took me ten years to live and two to write. I hope you enjoy. www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

“To imagine yourself as a modern-day Seneca, a sage liberated from the cares afflicting more ordinary souls, is its own form of self-indulgence,” @erikmbaker.bsky.social argues in his Issue Sixteen essay on self-help philosophy. www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

“The squelch is a metonym for their sexual intercourse.” In Nick Foretek’s Issue Sixteen short story, a trauma surgeon attends a pornographic fiction workshop. www.thedriftmag.com/porn/

PSJP coordinator Alex Vitale was quoted in a recent article about Zohran Mamdani’s potential paths in dealing with the NYPD if elected mayor. Read at the link below. Article by @k80way.bsky.social @thedriftmag.com @alexvitale.bsky.social

“To be starved in Gaza is to gradually lose both weight and dignity,” Abubaker Abed writes in his Issue Sixteen Dispatch on the experience of famine and why a ceasefire isn’t enough. www.thedriftmag.com/bleak-and-de...

Trying to have it both ways with the NYPD doomed de Blasio, and it would doom Zohran too. Read Katie Way's cautionary tale: www.thedriftmag.com/walking-the-...

So much has already been said about how a Mayor Zohran should orient himself towards the NYPD and yet here I am in @thedriftmag.com saying more

“If Mamdani is elected, the most reactionary voices in the department will have their knives out.” In a new preview from Issue Sixteen, @k80way.bsky.social considers Bill de Blasio’s relationship with the NYPD, and what lies ahead for Zohran Mamdani: www.thedriftmag.com/walking-the-...

“Miraculously, we still made decisions.” Jessica Laser’s Issue Fifteen poem “Hindsight” grapples, fittingly, with seeing and with direction. www.thedriftmag.com/hindsight/

“Joe Biden and Donald Trump separately visited Texas on the same day to present their respective plans for cracking down on border crossing.” —Gabriel Antonio Solis’s “Borderlands, Betrayed,” in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social & our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list: www.thedriftmag.com/borderlands-...

“The hero tries to drown his daughter in the bathtub. He does it as if he knows it’s a movie” — T. J. Cusano www.thedriftmag.com/streaming/

“My kitchen is my CNN Newsroom, and the potatoes are sprouting.” — Sasha Debevec-McKenney www.thedriftmag.com/list-of-prog...

As the second week of the new season of Love Island Games draws to a close, Associate Editor Saliha Bayrak takes stock of the outsized sense of importance fans have begun to ascribe to Love Island contestants’ political views. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/close-read...

From today's #DailyNewsDigest📰: "The loss is measured not only in empty stomachs but in empty marketplaces, in recipes we can no longer prepare, in flavors fading from our tongues." – @thedrift-mag.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/the-silence-...

In this Issue Fifteen short story, “Mormon Lake Hotshots,” @samuelmjensen.bsky.social writes about wildfires, shadowy intruders, and retribution. www.thedriftmag.com/mormon-lake-...

In the first preview of our Issue Sixteen Dispatches on food politics, Hamada Shaqura discusses the Gazan culinary tradition assaulted by years of Israeli blockade and bombing, and his own experience cooking in the midst of genocide. www.thedriftmag.com/the-silence-...

“A man dies while out clubbing, then watches as his body is brought to the home of a famous fashion designer.” Read “And One Day the Work Dies,” Angelo Hernandez Sias’s essay on Roberto Bolaño, in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth www.thedriftmag.com/and-one-day-...

In the newsletter today: two poems by Benjamin Krusling from our latest issue newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/i-still-wa...

In two Issue Fifteen poems, Benjamin Krusling gives us our world in all its overwhelming urgency and then gives us a break. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/i-still-wa...