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The Baffler@thebaffler· 12d

In a recent issue, Noah McCormack wrote on our new age of orality—one where we apparently aren’t talking all that much. thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

The Baffler@thebaffler· 15d

For our latest issue, Andrew Norman Wilson photographs the two-ton, eighteen-to-twenty-foot presidential busts of sculptor David Adickes. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler@thebaffler· 27d

In Baffler no. 77, @anathanwest.bsky.social wrote on the passport bro, whose financial, social, and sexual anxieties can only be eased by preying on women overseas. thebaffler.com/salvos/bang-...

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The Baffler@thebaffler· Jul 10

According to The Atlantic, the end of literacy is nigh, though you already know that if you read The Baffler—we devoted an entire issue to the subject last fall. thebaffler.com/issues/no-81

The Baffler@thebaffler· Jul 8

Our “Global Texas” film series at BAM concludes TONIGHT (7/8). We’re screening “Lone Star” at 6:45 p.m., and “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez” at 9:30 p.m. 🤠 Grab tickets now! www.bam.org/film/2026/th...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Jul 4

🇺🇸 Today only, get our latest issue for just $4. 🇺🇸 “Global Texas” describes how our appetite for red meat, crude oil, and conservative fantasy has shaped global politics. store.thebaffler.com/products/no-84

The Baffler@thebaffler· Jul 2

Catch the final two films in our screening series, “Lone Star” (6:45 p.m.) and “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez” (9:30 p.m.) at @BAMfilmBrooklyn next Wednesday (7/8). Get your tickets now: www.bam.org/film/2026/th...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Jun 29

Our “Global Texas” screening series kicks off tomorrow night at BAM with “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” (6:45 p.m.) and “Hud” (9:30 p.m.) Get your tickets now: www.bam.org/film/2026/th...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Jun 22

The Baffler and BAM are pleased to present our summer film series for our new issue “Global Texas” on 6/30 and 7/8. We’re screening “Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,” “Hud,” “Lone Star,” and “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.” www.bam.org/film/2026/th...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Jun 2

They say everything is bigger in Texas, but our new issue reveals just how far the state’s influence has expanded beyond its geographic limits, reflecting and shaping the politics of a world overrun with extractive industry, cattle fetishism, and border violence. thebaffler.com/issues/no-84

The Baffler@thebaffler· Jun 2

To help pay her way through an obscenely expensive MFA program, May Syeda hustled as a professional cuddler, working with clients whose needs and expectations were not always obvious. This is her story: thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler@thebaffler· May 13

“I could either have a career as a writer or a career as a fire lookout. I couldn’t have both. After missing a season in the tower due to my infirmities, I finally and fully accepted the truth.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler@thebaffler· May 11

The Palos Verdes Peninsula hosts some of the most coveted real estate in California. But it’s hugely vulnerable to landslides. Protecting these properties is costly, onerous, and ineffective—and the public has been footing the bill. thebaffler.com/latest/slips...

The local governments of the peninsula could—and probably should—mandate retreat through eminent domain, but the option is politically anathema. No politician has seriously proposed it, in part because doing so would be an acknowledgment that the area is no longer habitable, a message that runs counter to the interests of real estate developers, property owners, and officials seeking reelection. It would also theoretically require even bigger buyout programs at market rates that remain artificially high because the risks associated with building in hazardous landscapes have long been subsidized through disaster relief, infrastructure spending, and legal guarantees of compensation, effectively socializing the costs of risky private development decisions.

The Baffler@thebaffler· May 8

What does it take to afford a writing career? For our latest issue, we asked seven writers about the side gigs or full-time jobs they’ve taken on—waiting tables, watching for forest fires, cuddling lonely strangers, and more. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The accounts here describe the financial compromises, the emotional costs, the physical exhaustion, the moral injury, and the drain on the imaginative reserves that are the costs of a side gig. They describe the way that writing itself can serve as a form of spiritual recovery from the labor that funded it. They also detail the satisfactions of service work and manual toil, employment outside the cosmopolis, and mastering skill sets more material than putting words to paper. The forum, I hope, serves as a partial history of the hidden labor that makes possible the poems, stories, essays, books, and periodicals you read.

The Baffler@thebaffler· May 7

Last month, Baffler Deputy Editor Wes Enzinna spoke to a few of the writers featured on Montez Press Radio. Listen to the panel here: radio.montezpress.com#/show/3967

The Baffler@thebaffler· May 4

The Baffler is pleased to co-present the launch party for “God Forgives, Brothers Don't,” a new book on military masculinity by Jasper Craven. Join us on Memorial Day (5/25) from 7pm - 10pm. Get your tickets below! www.eventbrite.com/e/god-forgiv...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 24

“The energy others put into securing career advancement I devoted to writing. I never sought a promotion that wasn’t handed to me or attempted to negotiate a salary after it became easy to pay my bills.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 23

Tomorrow evening at 7pm, we’re going live on Montez Press Radio with a panel discussion on the day jobs and side gigs necessary to support a writing career. Join us in person, or stream online. radio.montezpress.com#/show/3967

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 15

We’re throwing a party to celebrate the successful release of our new issue, “Hirelings.” Join us TOMORROW (4/16) at TJ Byrnes in Manhattan.

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 15

“Professional cuddling for me was never simply about extracting money. I was a peer to these men. I, too, was desperate for intimacy in my own way.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 14

“Every day I had a mandated fifteen-minute coffee break and a half-hour lunch. I’d written whole drafts of novels during these many accumulated breaks, which were the reason I’d sought this job to begin with.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 13

We’re celebrating the success of our new issue THIS THURSDAY (4/16) at TJ Byrnes (77 Fulton St., Manhattan) from 7–10pm. Join us!

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 13

Professional cuddling pays better than retail—or many other jobs a full-time creative writing MFA student could get. But it’s also awkwardly intimate, emotionally exhausting—and sometimes abusive. May Syeda shares her story. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 10

“Why deny the erotic charge of a power differential? Every uniform suggests the prospect of removal.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 10

In our new issue, Charlotte Shane and Molly Matalon reveal the inner lives of male dancers who dress as cops. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 6

A side-gig can be a lifeline, but it isn’t always enough. In our new issue, Bertrand Cooper describes the exhaustion of long commutes, unpaid bills, and the financial precarity that saps your will to write. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 4

📣 The Baffler’s Spring Clearance Event returns. 📣 For as little as $1, get issues from the nineties, aughts, twenty-teens, and today. store.thebaffler.com/collections/...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 2

Our Annual Spring Clearance Event returns. 📣 We’ve steeply marked down our back catalog—with some issues as low as $1. store.thebaffler.com/collections/...

The Baffler@thebaffler· Apr 1

Chris Rose won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing on Hurricane Katrina for the Times Picayune newspaper—not long after, he ended up as a waiter in the French Quarter. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...