In Julia Kornberg’s “The Blonde,” our first fiction preview from Issue Seventeen, a pair of internet friends meet up in real life, with unanticipated results. Read online today.
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“From its earliest days,” Maia Silber writes in our first Issue Seventeen preview piece, “America’s welfare system has forced its beneficiaries to lie not only for their survival, but also for its own survival.”
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In the March installment of our advice column, Sophie Haigney responds to a questioner’s “desire for an artistic and intellectual life that transcends the cold machinery of money.”
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Congratulations to The Drift’s Senior Editor @erikmbaker.bsky.social! His book, “Make Your Own Job,” just won the 2026 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award from the Organization of American Historians.
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In 2024, @laurenleblanc.bsky.social wrote a Mention for The Drift on Nancy Lemann’s long-out-of-print book “The Ritz of the Bayou,” which helped lead to its republication on April 7. She spoke with Lemann for our newsletter today.
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Today in the newsletter, associate editor Max Norman revisits David Schurman Wallace’s examination of the afterlives of John Ashbery and the role of social media in shaping encounters with poetry today.
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Can always count on @seamus-malekafzali.com to say what needs to be said newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy...
“The precedent that Obama’s militarism solidified has only become more and more malignant as Trump has moved through his presidency,” writes @seamus-malekafzali.com in a new piece on the aerial forever wars.
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On a new biography of William F. Buckley, by Charlie Cockburn
On developers’ broken promises, by Jake Indursky
On a self-improvement trend, by Olivia Noble
On Nell Osborne’s debut novel, by Sam Ross
On Duke Ellington’s late-career religious masterpiece, by Will Dukes
On Europe’s leading photography festival, by @amkdurie.bsky.social
On a popular title, by Ben Gottlieb
An overly cheery exclamation point, a million-dollar wine cellar, winning the war with yourself, and more – read Mentions from Ben Gottlieb, @amkdurie.bsky.social, Will Dukes, Sam Ross, Olivia Noble, Jake Indursky, and Charlie Cockburn
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Today in the newsletter, a sharp dispatch from across the pond by Oliver Eagleton on the prospects of the electoral left in the UK newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/are-the-gr...
“There is a sense that the spirit of resistance which defeated the establishment in Greater Manchester might soon spread across the country.” Today in our newsletter, Oliver Eagleton reports on the surprising rise of the Green Party in the UK.
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Thank you to all who joined us last night for a discussion about Epstein, to our panelists (@drboguslaw.bsky.social, Brace Belden, @azbrodsky.bsky.social, @anandwrites.bsky.social), and to The Bell House for hosting us!
“I feel excited about the possibilities presented by the feeling that there isn’t much left to lose,” says “Down Time” author Andrew Martin in conversation with Drift co-editor Rebecca Panovka.
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We are launching our first-ever internship program this summer! Visit our website for more details. Applications are due by April 10. bit.ly/4aXdZQw
Soooooo proud of this recognition - what amazing company. I'm so happy that this will draw attention to these amazing stories!
Thrilled to have these stories by @samuelmjensen.bsky.social, Nick Foretek, and Elisa Gonzalez recognized by the National Magazine Awards!
Latest installment of Sophie’s new advice column, on moving and optionality newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/where-will...
The February installment of Sophie Haigney’s advice column addresses the question of where to live, and why committing is easier said than done.
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“I realized that I could treat the novel as a form, like any poem,” Drift contributor Daniel Poppick says in a Q&A on his new book “The Copywriter.”
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