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“Like the Parasite home, Kyung-Me’s rooms induce anxiety through the illusion of openness and transparency.” From “House of Worship,” an Art essay by Danielle Wu, originally published on January 14th, 2020. theoffingmag.com/art/archive-...

Exciting Announcement 📣 Our Essay department has decided to stay open until they reach 750 submissions! Submit at the link below. theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit

It's time!! The Essay department at @theoffingmag.bsky.social is open for submission until May 1. This is my first official window as Editor and I'm excited to see what y'all have for me. Here's a lil thread of details...

BAIT is meta and heady and weird and messy and so, so good, a constantly provocative dive into what representation even means -- progress or placation? riz & guz are an unmatched pair. great stuff. @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/bait...

It was incredible hearing this piece performed out loud in person. I will never forget it.

Your last saved photo of a celebrity is your therapist. SIGN ME UP.

I'm hiring for an editorial assistant here at L,B! If you're someone who is interested in literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoirs, and nonfiction that deals with big ideas, please apply here: jobs.jobvite.com/careers/hach...

“To confront a Toor then is to reckon with the nature of art history itself.” From the Archives: Read “The Miraculous Vivacity of Salman Toor,” an Art essay by Katie Alafdal. theoffingmag.com/art/archive-...

The Offing’s Poetry department is open for submissions today! ✨ theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit

I love Neil Young for a host of reasons but this is pretty cool "New York Times used to be where I went for news. Now I go to 'The Guardian.' I suggest you give it a try." neilyoungarchives.com/news/1

I’m excited to share I have a work of short fiction published in @kwelijournal.bsky.social. The story is excerpted from my novel set in mid-2000s Shanghai. I’m so honored the story found a home in a journal whose contributions the community I admire so much. www.kwelijournal.org/fiction/2025...

Dear @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social your silence as ICE attacks democracy is deafening. As a NY woman I’m ashamed.

Amazing piece by @mimiwong.bsky.social in @kwelijournal.bsky.social : Encounter on the Bund www.kwelijournal.org/fiction/2025...

If you read one thing today, let it be this: “An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good: Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness” ❤️💔 www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

happy birthday to the GOAT Hayao Miyazaki

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Supporting The Offing every year has meant I’m exposed to new writers and artists and helping give people the break they deserve. @mimiwong.bsky.social and I are committing this year to matching $500 in donations and we’re halfway there so we hope you can make a tax deductible donation today!

Seeking your support as we work toward our $5,000 goal for next year! Donate $50 and receive a free copy of our anthology. Use the link to donate today! theoffingmag.kindful.com?utm_source=i...

I'm seeking a few writers who might be interested in writing a review and have access to publishing the review for my current poetry collection "is(ness). Serious inquiries only. You can message me and I can get you in touch with my publisher. gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/

theoffingmag.com/translation/17170/ So honored to kick off my role as Editor of Poetry in Translation at The Offing with these poems by Leónidas Lamborghini translated by Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman. Please read and share widely. So much in store for 2026 and beyond.

We are officially less than two years away from the events of CHILDREN OF MEN Matters seem to be right on schedule

Rewatching "Children of Men" for the 1st time in almost 20 years and OMG, the opening lines. "Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques...the deportation of illegal immigrants will continue." The movie takes place in 2027.

Please please please double space your essays when submitting. When you are >50 and on your 20th essay read of the day, you will understand what an immense courtesy it is to double space.

Honestly, this is what I try to tell my students

I really needed this.

Congratulations to all of our nominees this year for Best of the Net! Check them out below:

Happy to announce that I’ve been appointed Editor of Poetry in Translation at The Offing. Looking forward to bringing lots of awesome work into the world, so overjoyed to be joining the team at the Offing and please stay tuned for an open call I’ll be announcing soon. يا قدّوس

current mood

Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cob

Labor Day Nicolaas van der Waay, The Strike of the Ballerinas, c. 1936

i think all the toads & toadettes come from the same mycelium and therefore share a hive mind

[to the tune of Lee-Ann Womack's I Hope You Dance] I hope he dies

hopescrolling

anyway neoluddite movement when

Today I share my last Letter from the Editor as EIC of @theoffingmag.bsky.social. Thank you for being part of this journey with me! mailchi.mp/theoffingmag...

For those of us who were actually unemployed adults in 2008, shit like this is hilarious

My translation of poetry and prose by Liu Chen-Chun 劉宸君, the late Taiwanese transgender poet and writer whose life was tragically cut short by a mountain trekking incident at age 19. from “Before the Snowmelt” 我所告訴你關於那座山的一切

“When I write about the children, I know your mind will wander back to someone else.” Read this story by Lê Khải Việt, tr. by Phương Anh, in theoffingmag.bsky.social . Phương Anh contributed to our issue “Untethered States: Literature of the Vietnamese Diaspora.” theoffingmag.com/translation/... (1)

Thank you to Gauri Awasthi and @theoffingmag.bsky.social magazine for publishing this interview

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It’s canon, now, that that T should be capitalized.

A thing that will clarify everything about these discussions of race (and the brokenness of reporting on politics in NYC) is that mainstream media absolutely *cannot* conceive of conversations that aren’t mediated by whiteness…

but also, when i say the NYTimes deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, crosswords, connections, and wordle, the wirecutter, the athletic, and all their podcasts.