Our most-read pieces of 2025

Essays, fiction, and more…

This year at The Drift, we published dozens of essays, short stories, poems, Dispatches, and Mentions. Here are just ten of our most-read pieces. We hope you’ll read or reread — and, if you’ve enjoyed our work this year, consider subscribing or making a donation so that we can keep it up.

1. Porn - Nick Foretek

2. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Shitty Life - Erik Baker

3. Escape Artists - Daniel Yadin

4. My Mother’s Husbands - Mariah Kreutter

5. “Politics Is Conflictual”​ - An Interview with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

6. Agit-Slop - Mitch Therieau

7. A Bureaucratic and Feminine Mind - Becca Rothfeld

8. Anti-Anti-Rape - Jamie Hood

9. Walking the Thin Blue Line - Katie Way

10. The Silence in My Kitchen - Hamada Shaqura

See you in 2026,

The Editors

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