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How Hispanic Democrats Abandoned Progressivism in South Texas

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 11d

“Joe Biden and Donald Trump separately visited Texas on the same day to present their respective plans for cracking down on border crossing.”

—Gabriel Antonio Solis’s “Borderlands, Betrayed,” in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social & our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list: www.thedriftmag.com/borderlands-...

Borderlands, Betrayed

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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 12d

“The hero tries to drown his daughter in the bathtub.
He does it as if he knows

it’s a movie”
— T. J. Cusano

www.thedriftmag.com/streaming/

Streaming

List of Programs Broadcast by CNN, Late Winter 2021

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 12d

“My kitchen
is my CNN Newsroom, and the potatoes are sprouting.”
— Sasha Debevec-McKenney

www.thedriftmag.com/list-of-prog...

Close reading angry political posts about Love Island

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 12d

As the second week of the new season of Love Island Games draws to a close, Associate Editor Saliha Bayrak takes stock of the outsized sense of importance fans have begun to ascribe to Love Island contestants’ political views.

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Plus two poems about TV

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Sustainable Food Trust @susfoodtrust.bsky.social · 15d

From today's #DailyNewsDigest📰: "The loss is measured not only in empty stomachs but in empty marketplaces, in recipes we can no longer prepare, in flavors fading from our tongues." – @thedrift-mag.bsky.social
www.thedriftmag.com/the-silence-...

The Silence in My Kitchen

Before the war I was a food blogger, visiting restaurants and writing reviews to showcase Gaza’s food culture.

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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 14d

In this Issue Fifteen short story, “Mormon Lake Hotshots,” @samuelmjensen.bsky.social writes about wildfires, shadowy intruders, and retribution.

www.thedriftmag.com/mormon-lake-...

Mormon Lake Hotshots

Fiction

The Silence in My Kitchen

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 19d

In the first preview of our Issue Sixteen Dispatches on food politics, Hamada Shaqura discusses the Gazan culinary tradition assaulted by years of Israeli blockade and bombing, and his own experience cooking in the midst of genocide.

www.thedriftmag.com/the-silence-...

Before the war I was a food blogger, visiting restaurants and writing reviews to showcase Gaza’s food culture.

And One Day the Work Dies

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 20d

“A man dies while out clubbing, then watches as his body is brought to the home of a famous fashion designer.”

Read “And One Day the Work Dies,” Angelo Hernandez Sias’s essay on Roberto Bolaño, in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth www.thedriftmag.com/and-one-day-...

A man dies while out clubbing, then watches as his body is brought to the home of a famous fashion designer, who fondles it.

"I still want a part of desperate living"

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Erik Baker @erikmbaker.bsky.social · 21d

In the newsletter today: two poems by Benjamin Krusling from our latest issue newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/i-still-wa...

Two poems by Benjamin Krusling

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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 21d

“that was never really meant to happen
I still want a part of desperate living
even with the jaws getting sick of general pacifism
but that’s all in an evening screening .” — Benjamin Krusling

www.thedriftmag.com/the-imperson...

the impersonal and the mythic , ok , I wish

what kind of person can watch images going by

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 21d

“I can hardly dream straight . this is the mystery
of art , it seems to wither
to death before you , conceptually ,” — Benjamin Krusling

www.thedriftmag.com/what-kind-of...

"I still want a part of desperate living"

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 21d

In two Issue Fifteen poems, Benjamin Krusling gives us our world in all its overwhelming urgency and then gives us a break.

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Two poems by Benjamin Krusling

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Donald Trump’s Cult of Faith

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 25d

“Many have described the president’s appeal as a cult of personality,” @topefolarin.bsky.social writes, “but his supporters’ devotion is perhaps better understood as a cult of faith — a passionate belief in his ability to bend others to his will.”

www.thedriftmag.com/god-like-con...

God-Like Confidence

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 26d

See you at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, Sept. 21! We’ll be selling discounted issues and merch, including special in-person-only items.

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 28d

Congrats to Drift contributors Jordan Thomas, Natalie Shapero, and Solvej Balle on making the National Book Award longlists for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Translated Literature!

newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/celebratin...

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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · Sep 12

On a morose version of a rom-com, by @alexpvalenti.bsky.social

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · Sep 12

On a try-hard nostalgia trap, by Jonah Walters

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · Sep 12

On a genuine multicultural love match, by @malignfiesta.bsky.social

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · Sep 12

On a Steinbeckian catalog of occupational abuses, by Irene Connelly

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · Sep 12

On Andrea Arnold’s latest film, by @harmlessfires.bsky.social

Extremely abbreviated reviews

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · Sep 12

A psychedelic toad, a proverbial mom, Canadian “national culture,” tulip chairs, and a sludge-like scallop dish — read five Mentions from @harmlessfires.bsky.social‬, Irene Connelly, @malignfiesta.bsky.social, Jonah Walters, and @alexpvalenti.bsky.social.

www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/

Mentions

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · Sep 12

On a genuine multicultural love match, by @malignfiesta.bsky.social

The Drift @thedriftmag.com · Sep 12

On a Steinbeckian catalog of occupational abuses, by Irene Connelly