The Baffler #83
170 x 247 mm, 138 pages
New York, US
Published six times a year
Editor-in-chief: Matthew Shen Goodman
Editor-at-large: Chris Lehmann
Art director and design: No Ideas
The Baffler publishes cultural analysis, short stories, poems, art, and left-wing political criticism six times a year. Titled ‘Bloom and Gloom’, this 82nd issue looks toward the climate crisis, asking who will defend our planet—and how—against its seemingly endless adversaries.
This latest edition—themed ‘Hirelings’—is devoted to ‘the mercenary and the freelancer.’ Inside, a cohort of journalists, novelists and poets share the side hustles they took on to sustain their writing careers, Benjamin Fogel explores the ubiquity of modern mercenaries—from boardrooms to the frontlines—honing in on 'newsworthy travails' from South Africa, and Henry Reese-Sheridan examines a changing Welsh political landscape, its growing nationalism, and dwindling language.