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The Field: The 2019 Music Issue

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The Devil’s Bargain

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By Jenn Pelly

A Voice More Beautiful Than Blue

By Katie Booth

The Field: The 2019 Music Issue

By Various

I. On Motorcycle Island It’s 2 p.m. in Austin, Texas, mid-March: the thick of the SXSW Music ...

The Devil’s Bargain

By Casey Jarman

Brontez Purnell has spent much of his life reimagining what an American punk can be. Galvanized ...

An Interview with Brontez Purnell

By Jenn Pelly

I was with my friend Jeff Mansfield, on the porch of a hand-built cabin in Virginia, when I ...

A Voice More Beautiful Than Blue

By Katie Booth

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Attia Taylor

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Eric Kostiuk Williams

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The Nirvana Shirt

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To Be Continued…

Hanif Abdurraqib

Aug 1

Essays

A Voice More Beautiful Than Blue

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On a Sunday morning in May 2018, I accompanied Vivia Wampler to a mall in Chico, California, where she often went to eavesdrop on other families. She held a Coke in one hand ...

William Nakabayashi

At Home in Filmistan

Filmistan Studios occupies five acres in Goregaon, India, which is technically an outer suburb of Mumbai, but denser than most New York City neighborhoods. If you take the ...

Mario Alejandro Ariza

Come Heat and High Water

I. GET OVER IT There’s a scar on my knuckle in the shape of a star. I got it from punching Alex Rodriguez in the teeth one afternoon in sixth grade. He and eleven other kids ...

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Comics

Aug 1

Comics

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Eric Kostiuk Williams

Aug 1

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The Nirvana Shirt

Jeremy Massie

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A Brief History of the Desecration of the Piano

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Blair Braverman

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Featured

Featured

The Field: The 2019 Music Issue

By Various

The Devil’s Bargain

By Casey Jarman

An Interview with Brontez Purnell

By Jenn Pelly

A Voice More Beautiful Than Blue

By Katie Booth

The Field: The 2019 Music Issue

By Various

The Devil’s Bargain

By Casey Jarman

An Interview with Brontez Purnell

By Jenn Pelly

A Voice More Beautiful Than Blue

By Katie Booth

The Latest

Five Poems by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

A Microinterview with Japanese Breakfast

Attia Taylor

SOS

Eric Kostiuk Williams

The Nirvana Shirt

Jeremy Massie

To Be Continued…

Hanif Abdurraqib

A Voice More Beautiful Than Blue

Katie Booth

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Poetry

Five Poems by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

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Gary Lutz

The Empathy Exams

Leslie Jamison

The Devil’s Bargain

Casey Jarman

The Logger

D for Double

Nicholas Russell

Pattern and Forecast (Vol. 7)

Nathan Austin

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Leila Abdelrazaq

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Mira Jacob

The Sentence is a Lonely Place

Gary Lutz

The Empathy Exams

Leslie Jamison

The Devil’s Bargain

Casey Jarman

D for Double

Nicholas Russell

Pattern and Forecast (Vol. 7)

Nathan Austin

Off Brand Video #7: Wayne Koestenbaum’s “Folie à Trois”

Patty Gone

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Bianca Giaever

A Natural Mother

William Nakabayashi