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In the July installment of her advice column, Sophie Haigney responds to a reader who wants to know how to set higher household cleanliness standards without feeling like “some sort of taskmaster (or, gasp, mother).” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/how-can-i-...
How can I get my partner to be cleaner?
The Drift’s advice column #7
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A plastic bag balaclava, thornless honeylocusts, Inner Mongolia, the grasp of the sublime, and the pursuit of a Godly woman — read new Mentions by Elizabeth R. Blackburn, Caroline Magavern, Owen Harrington, Lukasz Grabowski, and Drew Gillis www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
Mentions
Extremely abbreviated reviews
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Happy pub day to No Silence in the Afterlife by Abou Farman! In celebration of the release, Abou spoke with @thedriftmag.com about MRIs, protons, and ontological undertakings: newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/both-poetr...
To celebrate the publication of his new book “No Silence in the Afterlife,” out today from @noemipress.bsky.social, Drift contributor Abou Farman spoke with Poetry Assistant Hua Xi about MRIs, protons, and ontological undertakings. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/both-poetr...
"Both poetry and science name things to bring them into being"
A Q&A with Abou Farman
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In the July installment of his column on contemporary art, Max Norman examines recent sculpture exhibitions that collectively stage a debate about the value of permanence. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/sculpture-...
Sculpture in and out of time
Eternity or dissolution?
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“We’re now in a real drought of public feminist thought, even when it comes to topics that cry out for gender analysis,” @azbrodsky.bsky.social writes in a reflection on the post-Platner internet. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/in-the-vac...
In the vacuum of feminism
Alexandra Brodsky on online Platner apologia
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In advance of this afternoon’s Argentina-England World Cup semifinal, Andres Vaamonde examines the career of Lionel Messi and his complex place in Argentine culture. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-passio...
The Passion of Lionel Messi
Andres Vaamonde on the GOAT and Argentine culture
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As Max Hancock explored in Issue Sixteen, the same “digital twin” technology behind FIFA’s controversial replay system is increasingly deployed to surveil and discipline a wide range of ordinary workers. Read more in our newsletter today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/think-var-...
Think VAR is ruining the World Cup? Your workplace is next
The rise of digital twins
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In our newsletter today, @tarpley.bsky.social revisits @psfrench.bsky.social’s Drift essay on RICO in light of the Trump administration’s intensifying criminalization of protest. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/more-atom-...
More atom bomb than silver bullet
Piper French on RICO
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In advance of the United States’s Semiquincentennial on Saturday, we’ve compiled a roundup of some of the best pieces from our archive about American national identity and its paradoxes. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-drift-...
The Drift on America
Too much birthday
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The June installment of Max Norman’s art column considers two recent gallery shows featuring artists painting within and beyond the spatial constraints of the studio. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/endless-pa...
Endless painting
Two recent New York gallery shows
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“You can just not do things,” Sophie Haigney tells a reader who agonizes about the ethics of delivery apps in the June installment of her advice column. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/do-i-need-...
Do I need to stop ordering delivery?
The Drift's advice column #6
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Counterfeit poems, a neighborhood drunk, buxom desert strippers, toxic dust, and everyone’s favorite Sauron-inspired surveillance-tech giant — new Mentions by @izzyampil.bsky.social, Ariel Courage, Sascha Cohen, Ben Gambuzza, and @madeleineebaker.bsky.social. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/summ...
Summer 2026 Mentions
Extremely abbreviated reviews by Isabella Cacdac Ampil, Madeleine Baker, Sascha Cohen, Ariel Courage, Ben Gambuzza.
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“All this blood sport, all these pyrotechnics, and the only thing that can get them off, apparently, is making up a guy and imagining him getting really mad at them.” Read @mitchtherieau.bsky.social’s report on the UFC Freedom 250 spectacle. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/history-is...
History is a hype reel
On UFC Freedom 250
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Color version of “History Has Its Eyes On You” for @thedriftmag.com!
Scott Howard@scott-howard.com · 3mo agoSo happy to see this piece I was asked to create about the collision of history & musical theater for @thedriftmag.com on the printed page! An honor to work alongside such brilliant writers & artists. Pick it up at shop.thedriftmag.com. I made a bunch of versions of this I’ll share in the coming wks
It's a good time to be a small point guard, or a small magazine. Our limited edition Championship Cap is available now. shop.thedriftmag.com/product/cham...
In “Tooth Skin,” Gracie Newman’s Issue Seventeen short story, a graduate student writing a dissertation on dentistry in American literature takes a job at a dentist’s office to make ends meet. Sink your teeth in today. www.thedriftmag.com/tooth-skin/
Tooth Skin
Fiction
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So happy with how this piece I made for @thedriftmag.com turned out! You can see it in the wild here or all the versions on my site: scott-howard.com/History-Has-...
The Drift@thedriftmag.com · 2mo agoSince the heyday of Hamilton, Emma Adler writes in her Issue Seventeen essay on Broadway’s renditions of history, “progressive retelling has gone down a forking path, leaving us with a choice between didacticism and ideological toothlessness.” www.thedriftmag.com/history-has-...
Since the heyday of Hamilton, Emma Adler writes in her Issue Seventeen essay on Broadway’s renditions of history, “progressive retelling has gone down a forking path, leaving us with a choice between didacticism and ideological toothlessness.” www.thedriftmag.com/history-has-...
History Has Its Eyes on You
<i>Slam Frank</i> and Musical Theater’s <i>Hamilton</i> Bind
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It's a good time to be a small point guard, or a small magazine. Our limited edition Championship Cap is available now. shop.thedriftmag.com/product/cham...
"We might crave extreme solutions, but [...] this is a case where repeated small steps are better and sometimes harder." This program of "attentional reset" featured in @thedriftmag.com is worth a try. substack.com/home/post/p-...
How do I stop wasting my attention?
The Drift’s advice column #4
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Today we’re sharing two poems from Issue Seventeen that reflect on all that seeing can do to us, and all that it can’t do for us.
Early June is the perfect time to read Kion You’s Issue Seventeen Story “My Graduation,” about a complicated family reunion at a commencement in Texas. www.thedriftmag.com/my-graduation/
My Graduation
Fiction
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To celebrate the publication of her new book “Femmephilia,” Drift contributor @reproutopia.bsky.social spoke with Essays Editor Lyra Walsh Fuchs about mothering against motherhood, antifemininity feminism, and lysergic acid diethylamide. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/disliking-...
"Disliking and liking things with improper intensity"
A Q&A with Sophie Lewis
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“Going green has become business as usual,” Stephen Milder writes in his Issue Seventeen essay on Germany’s unmet environmental promises. But “green technologies and carbon-intensive industries can easily live side by side.” www.thedriftmag.com/the-myth-of-...
The Myth of Green Germany
Energiewende Runs Out of Fuel
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“The tools we have for changing people’s minds are very limited,” Sophie Haigney tells a reader worried about a loved one going down a cult-y rabbit hole in the May installment of her advice column. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/how-do-i-b...
How do I bring someone back to reality?
The Drift's advice column #5
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Today we’re sharing three animalistic Issue Seventeen poems, which stage encounters with beings of bone, fur, and whatever jellyfish are made of. 🧵
“The American pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale is an opportunity missed and a responsibility shirked,” Max Norman writes in the first installment of a new column on contemporary art. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/not-so-muc...
Not so much "plop" as "slop"
A dispatch from the Venice Biennale
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So happy to see this piece I was asked to create about the collision of history & musical theater for @thedriftmag.com on the printed page! An honor to work alongside such brilliant writers & artists. Pick it up at shop.thedriftmag.com. I made a bunch of versions of this I’ll share in the coming wks
