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There will be no Freedom Train this year.

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Semiquincentennial Blues
Mychal Denzel Smith

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Sounds from Rikers Island
Colin Asher

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From Mexico 1986 to North America 2026
Hugo Garciamarín

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The goals are all that really count, in the end—maybe they are all we need to watch.

The Clip Stage
Corley Miller

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No Place for Selfish Behavior
Kathryn Winner

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Strategic Amnesia
Bathsheba Demuth

Aquatic favorites from the depths of the archive.

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Image by Josephine Livingstone

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Kunicki, Water (I)
Olga Tokarczuk

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When salmon women summer camp ends, what will I do?

Issue 53 Excursions

Go Fish
Grace Glass

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Issue 23 As If

A Letter to Sylvia Plath
Ceridwen Dovey

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After all, no one ever mentioned the putting of a human dick into a living mollusc.

Issue 39 Take Care

My Octopus Girlfriend
Sophie Lewis

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Issue 53 Excursions

Wish You Were Her
Mina Tavakoli

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Recast in the language of the start-up economy, the spectacular failures of DIY countries become noble enterprises.

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Seasteading
Atossa Abrahamian

n+1 writers on Tinseltown.

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Every week Netflix seemed to deliver a new movie no one had ever heard of that somehow broke every viewing record in the world.

Issue 49 Rerun

Casual Viewing
Will Tavlin

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Book Review

Hullywod Boulevard
Erin Sheehy

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Issue 53 Excursions

Resort to Boulder
Will Tavlin

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An excerpt from The Earth Dies Streaming

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Remember Me on This Computer
A. S. Hamrah

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Issue 42 Vanishing Act

Digital Rocks
Will Tavlin

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Film Stills from Funny Ha Ha

Issue 3 Reality Principle

What Independent Film?
Andrew Bujalski