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Return of the Body Snatchers • Protean Magazine
This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration-for-profit—a long-buried symptom of the heedlessness and abject cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Emily Oster is aligned with Conservatives on nearly every important health issue: proteanmag.com/2022/03/22/m...
Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster's COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education • Protean Magazine
Free-market interests used fights over COVID protocols to further privatize K-12 education. Economist Emily Oster, whose research is funded by those groups, has laundered their ideologies and given th...
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January 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Emily Oster is aligned with Conservatives on nearly every important health issue: proteanmag.com/2022/03/22/m...
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Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explored how the ideology of real estate finds geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a turn to unmediated accumulation, exemplified by the egregious “Gaza development plan.”
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Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine
In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...
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January 4, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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And more besides. We also published dozens of poems, put out a print issue (Issue V, available at our store—see below), and hosted our first-ever event at the Verso office in NYC, w/readings from Kyle Carrero Lopez, Kinsey Cantrell, David Buuck, and Hanif Abdurraqib.
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Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps • Protean Magazine
Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps features some of the best writers and artists working today. In dozens of critical essays, poetry, and art, our contributors and editors grapple with genocide, h...
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December 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
And more besides. We also published dozens of poems, put out a print issue (Issue V, available at our store—see below), and hosted our first-ever event at the Verso office in NYC, w/readings from Kyle Carrero Lopez, Kinsey Cantrell, David Buuck, and Hanif Abdurraqib.
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In May, NPR conducted a disastrous interview with Palestinian writer Yousri Al-Ghoul; here, Alex Foley follows up with Al-Ghoul about the interview and his life in Gaza.
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Yousri Al-Ghoul Talks Back • Protean Magazine
In May, NPR conducted a disastrous interview with Palestinian writer Yousri Al-Ghoul; here, Alex Foley follows up with Al-Ghoul about the interview and his life in Gaza.
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December 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM
In May, NPR conducted a disastrous interview with Palestinian writer Yousri Al-Ghoul; here, Alex Foley follows up with Al-Ghoul about the interview and his life in Gaza.
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James Davis reviewed Fredric Jameson’s last collection, Inventions of a Present, from Verso. What can the novel, as “time’s relief map,” still teach us about the contemporary fragmentation of meaning?
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Relief Maps of Time • Protean Magazine
James Davis reviews Fredric Jameson’s last collection, Inventions of a Present, from Verso. What can the novel, as “time’s relief map,” still teach us about the contemporary fragmentation of meaning?
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December 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
James Davis reviewed Fredric Jameson’s last collection, Inventions of a Present, from Verso. What can the novel, as “time’s relief map,” still teach us about the contemporary fragmentation of meaning?
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proteanmag.com/2025/03/31/f...
Writer and translator Alex Tan spoke to renowned Gazan poet Nasser Rabah on his new collection, Gaza: The Poem Said its Piece, selected and translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khaled Al Hilli.
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To Gaza: An Interview with Nasser Rabah • Protean Magazine
Writer and translator Alex Tan speaks to renowned Gazan poet Nasser Rabah on his new collection, Gaza: The Poem Said its Piece, selected and translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khaled Al Hil...
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December 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Writer and translator Alex Tan spoke to renowned Gazan poet Nasser Rabah on his new collection, Gaza: The Poem Said its Piece, selected and translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khaled Al Hilli.
proteanmag.com/2025/06/16/t...
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Mallika Singh interviewed poet and organizer Lupita Limón Corrales, whose new collection, ESTA BOCA ES MÍA, has now been published by nueoi press. Corrales’s poems, Singh writes, are “a testament to the dissolution of self, to the collective voice.”
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Love Spells, Dying Empires: A Conversation with Lupita Limón Corrales • Protean Magazine
Mallika Singh interviews poet and organizer Lupita Limón Corrales, whose new collection, ESTA BOCA ES MÍA, has now been published by nueoi press. Corrales's poems, Singh writes, are "a testament to th...
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December 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Mallika Singh interviewed poet and organizer Lupita Limón Corrales, whose new collection, ESTA BOCA ES MÍA, has now been published by nueoi press. Corrales’s poems, Singh writes, are “a testament to the dissolution of self, to the collective voice.”
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Charlotte Rosen reviewed Bench Ansfield’s new book, Born in Flames—a stunning and revelatory analysis of the systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes that were perpetrated by landlords and insurance companies in the Bronx during the 1970s.
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Incendiary Schemes • Protean Magazine
Charlotte Rosen reviews Bench Ansfield's new book, Born in Flames—a stunning and revelatory analysis of the systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes that were perpetrated by landlords and insu...
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December 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Charlotte Rosen reviewed Bench Ansfield’s new book, Born in Flames—a stunning and revelatory analysis of the systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes that were perpetrated by landlords and insurance companies in the Bronx during the 1970s.
proteanmag.com/2025/09/07/i...
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Shane Boyle reviewed Craig Gent’s Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management. “Rather than representing a step towards scientific perfection, algorithmic management is simply the latest episode in capital’s interminable struggle to subjugate labor.”
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The Workplace Arms Race • Protean Magazine
Shane Boyle reviews Craig Gent's Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management. "Rather than representing a step towards scientific perfection, algorithmic management is simply the latest episode in c...
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December 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Shane Boyle reviewed Craig Gent’s Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management. “Rather than representing a step towards scientific perfection, algorithmic management is simply the latest episode in capital’s interminable struggle to subjugate labor.”
proteanmag.com/2025/12/23/t...
proteanmag.com/2025/12/23/t...
Andreas Malm was interviewed by Bernardo Jurema and Elias König—about his recent book “Overshoot” (co-authored with Wim Carton), the “unique” case of Colombia, Freudo-Marxism, his forthcoming book “The Long Heat,” and more.
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Uncompromising Resistance: A Conversation With Andreas Malm • Protean Magazine
Andreas Malm is interviewed by Bernardo Jurema and Elias König —about his recent book "Overshoot" (co-authored with Wim Carton), the "unique" case of Colombia, Freudo-Marxism, his forthcoming book "Th...
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December 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Andreas Malm was interviewed by Bernardo Jurema and Elias König—about his recent book “Overshoot” (co-authored with Wim Carton), the “unique” case of Colombia, Freudo-Marxism, his forthcoming book “The Long Heat,” and more.
proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...
proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...
And, in a preview of Issue VI, coming 2026:
Bayan Haddad once taught Oudeh Hathaleen—later a teacher himself, and a much-beloved Palestinian community advocate. In July, Oudeh was murdered by an Israeli settler. What, then, are the lessons of colonial violence?
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Bayan Haddad once taught Oudeh Hathaleen—later a teacher himself, and a much-beloved Palestinian community advocate. In July, Oudeh was murdered by an Israeli settler. What, then, are the lessons of colonial violence?
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On World-Building: Lessons From a Martyred Teacher • Protean Magazine
Bayan Haddad once taught literature to Oudeh Hathaleen, who would become a teacher himself, as well as Palestinian community advocate and consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. In ...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
And, in a preview of Issue VI, coming 2026:
Bayan Haddad once taught Oudeh Hathaleen—later a teacher himself, and a much-beloved Palestinian community advocate. In July, Oudeh was murdered by an Israeli settler. What, then, are the lessons of colonial violence?
proteanmag.com/2025/12/08/o...
Bayan Haddad once taught Oudeh Hathaleen—later a teacher himself, and a much-beloved Palestinian community advocate. In July, Oudeh was murdered by an Israeli settler. What, then, are the lessons of colonial violence?
proteanmag.com/2025/12/08/o...
Near the end of 2025, Laleh Khalili spoke with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism—on the political economy of lithium mining, the possibility of a just climate transition, and much more.
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Extractive Frontiers: An Interview With Thea Riofrancos • Protean Magazine
In this extensive, wide ranging interview, Laleh Khalili speaks with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, the political economy of lithium mining, the poss...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Near the end of 2025, Laleh Khalili spoke with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism—on the political economy of lithium mining, the possibility of a just climate transition, and much more.
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
Sarah Brouillette reviewed Madeline Lane-McKinley’s new book, Solidarity With Children, which accounts for the scale of injustice perpetrated against children worldwide and calls for new value systems that no longer regard children as parental property.
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Horizons of Youth Liberation • Protean Magazine
Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Children, out this month from Haymarket Books.Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Ch...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Sarah Brouillette reviewed Madeline Lane-McKinley’s new book, Solidarity With Children, which accounts for the scale of injustice perpetrated against children worldwide and calls for new value systems that no longer regard children as parental property.
proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...
proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...
Noah Kulwin reviewed Seth Harp’s new book, “The Fort Bragg Cartel,” which traces the historical continuities between Vietnam War-era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality taking place at the Fort.
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A History of Violence • Protean Magazine
Noah Kulwin reviews Seth Harp's new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," tracing the historical continuities between Vietnam War-era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality ta...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Noah Kulwin reviewed Seth Harp’s new book, “The Fort Bragg Cartel,” which traces the historical continuities between Vietnam War-era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality taking place at the Fort.
proteanmag.com/2025/11/12/a...
proteanmag.com/2025/11/12/a...
In late September, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur died in Cuba a free woman. Orisanmi Burton celebrated her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from U.S. empire.
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Assata Is Welcome Here • Protean Magazine
In late September, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur died in Cuba a free woman. Orisanmi Burton celebrates her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from U.S. ...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In late September, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur died in Cuba a free woman. Orisanmi Burton celebrated her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from U.S. empire.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a...
proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a...
Rawad Wehbe wrote a critique of shallow representationalism and the tokenization of Palestinian poetry in the West. Rather than engaging with a rich tradition, establishment publications are all too ready to relegate diversity to a lone representative.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/05/t...
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The End of Palestine in English • Protean Magazine
Rawad Wehbe writes with an extended critique of the shallow representationalism and tokenization that have marked the orientation of leading Western media spaces towards Palestinian poetry. Rather tha...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Rawad Wehbe wrote a critique of shallow representationalism and the tokenization of Palestinian poetry in the West. Rather than engaging with a rich tradition, establishment publications are all too ready to relegate diversity to a lone representative.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/05/t...
proteanmag.com/2025/10/05/t...
We excerpted Mousa Alsadah’s foreword to “Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide,” the collected writings of Wasim Said—a Gazan survivor who, writing as he fled the killing, recorded stories of unthinkable horror, suffering, and solidarity.
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[Excerpt] Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide • Protean Magazine
This excerpt is drawn from Mousa Alsadah’s foreword to the collected writings of Wasim Said—a Gaza survivor who, writing as he fled the killing, recorded stories of unthinkable horror and suffering. S...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We excerpted Mousa Alsadah’s foreword to “Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide,” the collected writings of Wasim Said—a Gazan survivor who, writing as he fled the killing, recorded stories of unthinkable horror, suffering, and solidarity.
proteanmag.com/2025/09/23/e...
proteanmag.com/2025/09/23/e...