issue 12 is lyra's first! may there be many dozens more! 🥇🥈

in which maya reads percival everett's tarot (!!!!)

Here's a recording of WKCR tonight from around 9:10 to 10:15. Mortifying dropbox.com/scl/fi/t7fmof9…

such a good piece by anahid nersessian — beautiful literary analysis, chilling dispatch, moral beacon lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

I'm sorry but it's time everybody look at these images.

Clare Sestanovich (Clare Sestanovich), our managing editor, has a new book out in June. Preorder “Ask Me Again” today: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653534/a…

my essay about god and love and other unknowable things The New Yorker: newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

my book is out next week! come chat with me and the brilliant Alexandra Schwartz RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/in-store-cla…

“Deciding what to write is as much a matter of careful subtraction as it is of pure creation.” —Clare Sestanovich “Ask Me Again,” the writer’s debut novel, explores a lifelong friendship of shared loss, curiosity, and changing beliefs. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…

Issue Thirteen is here! thedriftmag.com/issue/issue-13/

wow!! thank you!!

Electric Lit's Masquerade is back with a twist! It's our 15th birthday, and we're celebrating by going electric. Join us and hosts @frumpenberg, Vanessa Chan, Deesha Philyaw, and Clare Sestanovich for a night of drinks, dancing, and lots of neon in support of EL! buff.ly/3RkJsEb

"With this let all debts be paid that I owed, real or imagined." This poem is a compilation of 82 sentences taken from the last statements made by people about to be executed nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

The Drift is getting bigger and better: this fall, we’re thrilled to welcome Shreya Chattopadhyay (shreya chattopadhyay) as editorial assistant, Carina Imbornone (carina) as business manager, and Saliha Bayrak (Saliha Bayrak) and Livia Wood as associate editors.

We cannot advocate for a person who is complicit in the murders of fellow journalists and the bombing of colleagues whose pieces we have fact-checked. thenation.com/article/politi…

A dispatch from Crown Heights, one of eight simultaneous canvassing launches on Saturday w/ 300+ volunteers across four boroughs. We're going to knock one million doors w/ NYC-DSA 🌹 by the June primary. Sign up at zohranfornyc.com/volunteer

!! did not know our dog Uly had such big shoes to fill

Listen to a new episode of Selected Novels, featuring Clare Sestanovich on Marilynne Robinson’s “Housekeeping”: thepointmag.buzzsprout.com/1791285/episod…

This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message : “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18