The Drift

Issue Eighteen is here! 🧵

In his Issue 18 poem, “Hermione Granger,” Lev Xue conjures a Chinese facsimile of a particular boy wizard. www.thedriftmag.com/hermione-gra...

Very cool to see my essay for @thedriftmag.com out today as a Guardian Long Read!

In “Abracadabra,” Chidima Ankewe’s Issue Eighteen short story, a Nigerian-American college linguistics student grapples with the power and limits of language. www.thedriftmag.com/abracadabra/

An abridged version of @briankgoodman.bsky.social’s Issue Eighteen essay is in The Guardian today. Read the full version here: www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...

In her Issue Eighteen essay, Saliha Bayrak investigates the emergence of celibacy as a self-improvement practice akin to other wellness trends — and what happens when an ancient religious discipline gets secularized. www.thedriftmag.com/save-yourself/

To celebrate the publication this week of her debut novella “Three,” Drift contributor and Sally Rooney translator @sweetmedicine.bsky.social spoke to Assistant Editor Shreya Chattopadhyay about archetypes and desire. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/its-easier...

Great piece from Max Norman in the newsletter today about Peter Hujar’s posthumous ascension to the photographic pantheon newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-canoni...

Peter Hujar’s fame, Max Norman writes in his October column, finally “seems to have caught up with that of his subjects.” What would our narrative about the history of American photography look like if it hadn’t taken so long? newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-canoni...

Our Issue Eighteen launch party is tonight! See you there.

Our Issue Eighteen launch party is this week! Featuring readings from @lorakelley.bsky.social, @seamus-malekafzali.com, @benpurkert.bsky.social and more.

In Ismail Ibrahim’s Issue Eighteen short story, a beautiful boy entices a patient at a Midwestern rehab center to drive with him to California. Read online today. www.thedriftmag.com/pacific/

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“Protein is a wellness trend. As a nutritionist, it just seems weird to me.” In our Issue Eighteen interview, Marion Nestle spoke to us about what it would really mean to make America healthy. www.thedriftmag.com/nobody-is-mi...

Sophie's September advice column considers the mutual repulsion between phones and plot and what that means for L-O-V-E newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/can-the-ap...

In the September installment of her advice column, Sophie Haigney responds to a reader who struggles to imagine digital technology finding a place in a compelling love story. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/can-the-ap...

To mark the publication today of his new book “Man in the Mirror,” @anandwrites.bsky.social spoke with @madeleineebaker.bsky.social about Daniel Penny’s killing of Jordan Neely and the “chronic hum of dehumanization” that pervades our society. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-emotio...

Reporting from Budapest's Danube Institute as Viktor Orban's rule unravels, this piece traces how US and European conservatives treated Hungary as a model for using state power against liberal institutions. By @briankgoodman.bsky.social in @thedriftmag.com buff.ly/AeMVDS4

“Today, it feels like the Muslim community has been seriously politically emboldened.” Read Krithika Varagur’s interview with Aber Kawas, poised to become the first Palestinian-American state senator in New York history. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/we-no-long...

OUT NOW! We're so excited to support the writers contributing Issue 18 of @thedriftmag.com! In it, you’ll find essays, biopics, and more, as well as new fiction, poetry, Mentions, anonymous Dispatches on A.I., and an interview with Marion Nestle. Learn more: degrootfoundation.org/the-drift-is...

The “postliberal” intellectual scene that thrived in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary has often been characterized as mere regime propaganda. But when @briankgoodman.bsky.social visited himself, he found something more complex — and more troubling. www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...

This is good, and has an appropriately acid punchline. www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...

Killer first graf from Brian Goodman in this essay on Hungary for @thedriftmag.com www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...

Unnamed literary agent in @thedriftmag.com's anonymous AI confessional. (love this format.)

In the coming weeks we'll be spotlighting each contribution to Issue Eighteen of @thedriftmag.com. First up: anonymous Dispatches on A.I. www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-fun...

In Issue Eighteen’s Dispatches section, a group of anonymous contributors — including novelists, academics, doctors, organizers, and more — report on how they are using, not using, or being pushed to use A.I. www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-fun...

Join us on October 8 at Tavern 29 starting at 7 p.m. to celebrate the launch of Issue Eighteen! Print subscribers get in free.

It turns out "infiltrating" the Danube Institute mostly requires filling out an online registration form. That, and eating a lot of dry pastries. The essay is finally out in @thedriftmag.com www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...

One of the stranger experiences of my life! Thanks to the wonderful editors @thedriftmag.com. Happy (and just a little scared) to finally share it...

Our new issue also contains a Mention from me

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