Issue Seventeen is here!
Read the newest edition of The Drift online today
We’re thrilled to share the seventeenth issue of The Drift with you today. In it, you will find:
Max Norman on Karl Ove Knausgaard’s swerve from realism
Mitch Therieau on the Trump administration’s nightmarish memeworld
Emma Adler on historical retelling in musical theater after Hamilton
Stephen Milder on Germany’s overblown claims to environmental leadership
Maia Silber on the pervasive fraud that stabilizes the welfare system
Francis Northwood on the ways workers can lose out from employee ownership
Fiction by Caroline Porter, Julia Kornberg, Gracie Newman, Kion You, and Hannah Kingsley-Ma
Poetry by Abou Farman, Adam Judah Krasnoff, Lily Gabaree, Carmen Gallo, Melanie Jennings, and Andy Butter
Dispatches on the public sphere by Tarpley Hitt, Noelle Bodick, Sarah Brouillette, Edward Ongweso Jr, Erik Baker, Ege Yumuşak, Ismail Ibrahim, Megan Marz, and Sam Adler-Bell.
A conversation about Jeffrey Epstein with Brace Belden, Daniel Boguslaw, Alexandra Brodsky, and Anand Giridharadas
Extremely abbreviated reviews of the so-called fastest game in the world, the world’s least charismatic carnival barker, and a stealth history of the entire world
And an editors’ note
If you’re a subscriber, you can expect the issue to arrive in your mailbox within the next few weeks. Print copies are stocked in Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, and more than sixty independent bookstores in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
You can also purchase individual copies in our online shop, along with totes, tees, caps, and more.
Now that we are over the edge of seventeen, we hope that you find in this issue what Stevie Nicks called “the slow graceful flow of age.” Thanks, as always, for reading.
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