“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...

“Many have described the president’s appeal as a cult of personality,” @topefolarin.bsky.social writes, “but his supporters’ devotion is perhaps better understood as a cult of faith — a passionate belief in his ability to bend others to his will.” www.thedriftmag.com/god-like-con...

See you at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, Sept. 21! We’ll be selling discounted issues and merch, including special in-person-only items.

Congrats to Drift contributors Jordan Thomas, Natalie Shapero, and Solvej Balle on making the National Book Award longlists for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Translated Literature! newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/celebratin...

A psychedelic toad, a proverbial mom, Canadian “national culture,” tulip chairs, and a sludge-like scallop dish — read five Mentions from @harmlessfires.bsky.social‬, Irene Connelly, @malignfiesta.bsky.social, Jonah Walters, and @alexpvalenti.bsky.social. www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/

“The state has become his dick.” Read our conversation with Wendy Brown about Trump’s politics of dominance and the importance of a robust feminism for the left. www.thedriftmag.com/theyre-using...

The hottest talents of the early 1990s, impotent civil servants, shameless name-dropping, HSK 4 Mandarin, and loud pagan rituals — read five Mentions from @therealbradbabs.bsky.social, Michael Kaplan, S.C. Cornell, @aprzhu.bsky.social, and John Bohn

A beautiful, insightful conversation among a few of our editors about how the experience of growing up as the child of immigrants has evolved over the 21st century – check it out! newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/a-changing...

“The betrayal that my family felt with Obama mirrors the betrayal that so many people felt with Biden’s policy in Gaza.” Drift editors Krithika Varagur, Saliha Bayrak, and Shreya Chattopadhyay consider solidarity, state violence, and “the brown community”: newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/a-changing...

congratulations @taylorswiftnews.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/taylor-swift/

In Matteo Ciambella’s “Fluff,” from Issue Fifteen, stories are embedded within stories; a scientist disappears in a sandstorm; sheep loom large. www.thedriftmag.com/fluff/

provocative interview w/ wendy brown @thedrift-mag.bsky.social: "Should we stop worrying so much about liberal democratic principles & processes—let go of liberal democracy the way the right did—and figure out how to seize the state to stem climate change..." www.thedriftmag.com/theyre-using...

In her Issue Fifteen Dispatch, @aywarhiannon.bsky.social explains why we need to wield the First Amendment “in service of our most powerful formation: the collective.” www.thedriftmag.com/collective-p...

“A lot of the poems start from a place of anger,” Sasha Debevec-McKenney tells Jordan Cutler-Tietjen about her new collection, “Joy Is My Middle Name.” “But then they change and get more complicated.” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-poem-i...

Adam Tooze on human creativity post-AI: “everything faulty, quirky, weird, off the beaten path: that’s where humanity is going to reside.” From @thedrift-mag.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/all-sticks-n...

The fiction inbox will be closed for the month of August for a summer break! It will reopen on September 1; any stories submitted between August 1 and September 1 will not be considered.

“If anti-Semitism is the proverbial socialism of fools,” Becca Rothfeld writes in Issue Fifteen, “then rage against the twentysomething groundlings who work at an Australian skincare company is the socialism of morons.” www.thedriftmag.com/a-bureaucrat...

Here's a pretty cool look at how the designer of one small print magazine — @thedrift-mag.bsky.social — puts together its covers. I especially like the gif showing the evolution from inspiration to final design. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-making...

Ever wonder how a Drift cover comes together? Our print designer Ivy Sanders Schneider explains the process – and how she reenvisions designs from early 20th century socialist magazines for the present day. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-making...

‘The question will be: which version of a new order — or new orders, plural — will win resources and people most quickly and most effectively? And that is a question we have to answer with our organizing.’ @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social interviewed in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social:

very important read and follow @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social who is one of those who Gets It

“I don’t know why people are so bent out of shape about hope,” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social tells us. “Hope is great.” Read the interview from Issue Fifteen today. www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...

“One of the things that originally motivated me to write Elite Capture was to try to get people to be more precise. Elite in terms of what?” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social author of Elite Capture, interviewed by @thedrift-mag.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...

Great interview about one of the most exciting new novels of the year!

“I think that the difference between romantic and platonic relationships is a question of intensity,” Stephanie Wambugu told associate fiction editor Livia Wood in a Q&A about her debut novel, Lonely Crowds, excerpted in Issue Fifteen. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/a-question...

“We’ve reached the limits of what moral outrage can do without material political power backing it up,” @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells us in a new interview from Issue Fifteen. www.thedriftmag.com/we-will-not-...

An aspiring vampire, dripping wreckage, “benign silliness,” lights fit for a starlet, and America’s Marquis de Sade –– read Issue Fifteen Mentions from Aaron Labaree, @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, Mark Steinbach, Nicki Klar, and Noa Wesley. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...