Back Draft: Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman
Two fiction writers on how collaborating on a novel changed their friendship.
Interview
Interview
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson: “As a Black Southern woman, I’m full of dread”
The author of My Monticello on finding humanity in intersecting dystopias.
Lives
One Man’s Pest
In the urban Amazon, black vultures are a threat to aviation — but otherwise a boon, however distasteful, to humans.
Interview
Shayna Rosendorff: What Lies Beneath
Revealing the degradation and extraction that maps conceal.
Interview
“Why the Afghans Did Not Fight”
How American "help" turned the Afghan army into sitting ducks
Poetry
On Being Asked What I Am Tired Of
The weather of course and the afternoon light / that might as well be bad milk
Essay
“She Ain’t Gonna Last Very Long, Is She?”
A year of at-will employment in the Kentucky legislature.
Review
Ordinary People
In a book comprised of observations from her daily bus commute, Lauren Elkin considers the line between the everyday and the exceptional.
Lives
Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Divided City
A map-maker works to get basic amenities in his community. An excerpt from the book, out now.
Interview
Amia Srinivasan: “Feminism is a political practice, not just a set of ideas”
The philosopher on sex as a political phenomenon
Interview
Jamie Roth: “The opportunity for change is fading.”
A federal prisoner released during the pandemic is sent behind back bars—while pregnant.