Yo-de-lay-hee-hoo

Michael Lipkin

Christian Kracht’s novel of Teutonic disenchantment

November 26

No Ordinary Joe

Daniel Felsenthal

In his selected letters, Joe Brainard reveals the human behind the saint.

November 25

The Consultant Con

Max Kiefel

The Democrats are a business masquerading as a party.

November 21

Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare

Benjamin Balthaser

Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism is a conscious throwback to Cold War liberalism.

Israel and Palestine in Context

All articles, essays, and poems about Palestine are now available for free. If you like our coverage, please consider supporting us and subscribing today.

November 13, 2024

Incendiary Kites

Will Harrison

We’ve no shortage of proof.

October 8, 2024

The Failure of Liberal Zionism

David Klion

Israel has behaved exactly as its harshest critics predicted.

October 7, 2024

A Rupture in Time

Sarah Aziza

The horizon of Zionism will always, only fold back on itself.

September 3, 2024

Critical Counterinsurgents

Harry Zehner

Critiquing Israel to rescue Zionism.

Baffler Newsletter

New email subscribers receive a free copy of our current issue.

Baffler Newsletter

New email subscribers receive a free copy of our current issue.

Baffler Newsletter

New email subscribers receive a free copy of our current issue.

From the Magazine

Current issue, no. 76

Waiting at Anchor

Laleh Khalili

On seafarer abandonment

Bunker Down

Emily Harnett

Notes from the Cold War underground

The Unwinding

Bryce Covert

What happens when you lose your Medicaid coverage?

From the Archives

We told you so

Your government is in the hands of super-rich people who never had to show anything to anybody!

What We Do Is Secret

Adele M. Stan

June 2017

The luxuries of a major automobile press jaunt.

Dipping Extremely Low in the Lap of Corporate Luxury

Bryant Urstadt

March 1999

Latest

November 20

Masks Off

Jess McAllen

The push to criminalize face coverings puts everyone at risk.

November 19

A Novel of India’s Identity Crisis

Apoorva Tadepalli

Fictionalizing the Modi era.

November 18

Look Who’s Talking

Leo Kim

All that separates us from enlightenment is a few more rounds of VC funding.

Masks Off

Jess McAllen

November 20

Masks Off

Jess McAllen

November 20

A golden statue wearing a medical face mask.

November 19

A Novel of India’s Identity Crisis

Apoorva Tadepalli

Fictionalizing the Modi era.

November 18

Look Who’s Talking

Leo Kim

All that separates us from enlightenment is a few more rounds of VC funding.

Online

November 12

Ghosts in the Mirror

Stephen Piccarella

The post-postmodern novel

November 11

Come to Harm

Adrian Nathan West

Reconsidering the orthodoxies of addiction and treatment

November 5

You Had to Be There

Zoë Hu

Whose side is the war correspondent on?

November 7

Illegitimate Concerns?

Kevin Okoth

Notes on the new far right in Germany and the UK

November 1

Rust Belt Rebound

Justin H. Vassallo

In Ohio, Sherrod Brown stakes his future on a resurgence of manufacturing

October 31

Captain Claud

Andrew Holter

A new biography of Claud Cockburn, journalist, communist, and anti-imperialist buccaneer

Poems

October

All morning, tax evasion

Ariel Yelen

From issue no. 76

October

Clytemnestra

Cynthia Zarin

From issue no. 76

October

Poem Inspired by Everything

Anselm Berrigan

From issue no. 76

Fiction

November 22

Be a Woman Once, Oh Lord!

Banu Mushtaq

I am a prisoner of a soul whose doors and windows are shut.

November 8

The Insensible Bond is Your Vision

Austyn Wohlers

What does it matter, all is grace.

October 28

The Kwak Race

Manuela Draeger

The city was screaming. It made you tremble.

The Baffler Homepage

Big Story

Top Rollout