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We read for the shock of experience, the labor of tradition, and the ecstasy of self. We pay $100 for writing and $25 for art.

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Our essays are always online and always free. We rely on individual donors to support the magazine.

Postscript, our interview series, can be accessed with a paid subscription. The $30 annual rate costs as much as a couple paperbacks or movie tickets. Our $250 founding members are our most ardent patrons, those who wish to advance our wildest editorial ambitions.

“A publication that ought to temper any doomerism about the future of criticism”
– Jon Baskin, editor of The Point Magazine

FOUNDING EDITORS

Tessa Augsberger
Elan Kluger
Rufus Knuppel

ASSISTANT EDITORS

Will Diana
Theodore Gary
Isabel Mehta
Owen Yingling

FOUNDERS | est. May 2025

Tessa Augsberger
Milla Ben-Ezra
Elan Kluger
Rufus Knuppel