Issue Sixteen is here!
Read the newest edition of The Drift online today
We’re thrilled to share the sixteenth issue of The Drift with you today. In it, you will find:
Daniel Yadin’s already much-debated dissection of the romantasy phenomenon
Erik Baker on self-help literature’s fatalistic embrace of “philosophy”
Yoni Gelernter on the Masada story and Zionism’s death drive
Katie Way on Zohran Mamdani, Bill de Blasio, and the insidious power of the NYPD
Max Hancock on the latest technology that’s coming to make your job worse
Séamus Malekafzali on the obsession with gratitude that Trump shares with the neocons
Fiction by Mimi Diamond, Madeline Cash, Nick Foretek, Elisa Gonzalez, and Will Hall
Poetry by Michael Robbins, Kathleen Ma, Leslie McIntosh, Oksana Maksymchuk, and Ethan Seeley
Dispatches on the role of food in global systems of power from Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Luis Feliz Leon, Olantunji Olaigbe, Hamada Shaqura, Andy Cawley, Sara G. Kielly, Shahad Elfaki, Zeead Yaghi, Vivian Hu, Pranay Somayajula, and Abubaker Abed
An interview with historian Stuart Schrader on police abolition, the carceral state under Trump, and copaganda
Extremely abbreviated reviews of everything from Helena Bonham Carter’s “feathery ASMR voice” to “an abyss that was once a mountain”
If you’re a subscriber, you can expect the issue to arrive in your mailbox in 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 — all of which are 25 percent off until January.
As this long, difficult year draws to a close, we hope that Issue Sixteen will be a comfort and an aid in making sense of our troubled present and imagining a better future. Thanks, as always, for reading, and for your support.
Associate Editor Tarpley Hitt’s book Barbieland is out today! You can order it now from our Bookshop page, and RSVP for her launch event tomorrow at McNally Jackson.
"Already much debated" Good :)