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THE DRIFT LITERARY MAGAZINE – FALL 2026

The Drift Magazine – The latest issue features an editors’ note on contemporary democracy, an interview with Marion Nestle regarding food industry oversight, a report on postliberal Budapest, and analytical essays on regional strategies and political momentum.

From the Editors

Editors’ Note​ | Democracy Now

The Editors

“Nobody Is Minding the Store”​ | An Interview with Marion Nestle

The Drift Editors

Front Lines

The Last Days of the Danube Institute​ | A Report from Postliberal Budapest

Brian Goodman

Everything in Moderation​ | Tech Fiction’s Discontents

Lora Kelley

Brothers in Arms​ | On the UAE’s Israel Model

Séamus Malekafzali

Home Front

Save Yourself​ | Secular Celibacy Gets Trendy

Saliha Bayrak

Socialists in Office​ | NYC-DSA Is Put to the Test

Piper French

Broken Records​ | Hollywood’s Music Biopic Formula

Hanson O’Haver

Fiction

The Visitor​ | Fiction

Lily Felsenthal

Unlike Things​ | Fiction

Henri Lipton

Abracadabra​ | Fiction

Chidima Anekwe

Pacific​ | Fiction

Ismail Ibrahim

Poetry

The Only Visit​ | Poetry

Ben Purkert

Year of the No-Talk Rule​ | Poetry

Sam Bailey

Reminiscing Yongsan​ | Poetry

Park Soran

Hermione Granger​ | Poetry

Lev Xue

“I wanted to like sports radio”​ | Poetry

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Self-Evaluation​ | Poetry

Rosanna Young Oh

How to Build a Chair​ | Poetry

Steve Roberts

Dispatches

Into the Funhouse Mirror​​ | Anonymous A.I. Confessional

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Cultural Views: The Drift Magazine – July 19, 2024

The Drift Magazine (July 19, 2024): The latest issue features Maybe fortresses come to violence like an addiction. Maybe the water is just water. The tide abandons what it leaves. We have absolutely no way of controlling the cane toad. “I love anyone who hears my screams.” You ever cry with that knowledge? Do they kiss on the mouth? What will the bears say? I am not yet a trampoline. No doors exist and nobody’s home. Simply because they are eternally young, beautiful, and dead.

Editors’ Note​|Walled Off

THE EDITORS

“History as It Is Happening”​|An Interview with Rachel Kushner

The Fortress University​|Protesting and Policing on Campus

ERIK BAKER

Time and Time Again​|Proust in the Age of Retranslation

SIMON LESER

The Ink in the Inkwell​|Literature of the Black Resort Town

MELVIN BACKMAN

No Atlanta Way​|Stop Cop City Meets the Establishment

SAM WORLEY

Culture & Politics: The Drift Magazine – Fall 2023

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The Drift Magazine – Fall 2023 Issue – Essays on dissidents, ecoterrorists, and mermaids; an interview with Veronica Gago, Dispatches on the future of the Supreme Court; also fiction, poetry, reviews and more…

Culture & Politics: The Drift – February 28, 2023

The Drift Magazine – February 28, 2023 Issue – We called it heterosexual oppression. Like replacing a piece of your skull with a smartwatch.

Electric Bodies | Medical Technology Takes Over

Through a growing focus on healthcare monitoring in recent years, Apple has positioned its wearables as essential accessories for the technophile and the casual hypochondriac alike. 

Like so many other predictions of collapse, exaggerated.  Methylphenidate  for Miriam. Two executives showed up for a meeting dressed as Woody and Buzz Lightyear. A source of revolutionary Marxist critiques, an outright conservative, a peddler of flimsy conspiracy theories. Some days I am so filled with myself I can see nothing. I am not going to apologize for the empire, for our history. Bravissima! Stealth, he kept no socials. She had martini-glass tits. In this city every boy is an isotope. Enter among the truly civilized peoples. Cruising for difference. The body of a bear, the nose of an elephant, the paws of a tiger, the tail of an ox, and needle-like hairs. Wainscoting for an all-knowing liberalism. How can a narrow regional tabloid claim itself The World? The surrealist didn’t prescribe life-sized butter ears. Spend how you want the sixtyish years you have left of your life

Words Exchanged | Italophone Somalia, Then and Now

“Italian language teaching is back in Somalia!” the Italian embassy in Somalia tweeted in late September 2021, announcing a new program at the Somali National University that would reintroduce the language of the country’s former colonizer.