Summer 2026 · Volume 44, issue 2
OpenInheritance and Attention
How does a small magazine inherit a tradition without becoming its museum? This issue follows attention across public life, archives and criticism.
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Open
The Public Square After the Algorithm
A civic culture needs places where disagreement can acquire memory, proportion and consequence.
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What an Archive Is For
An archive becomes valuable when a reader can enter it by question, person and argument — not merely by filename.
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A Small Defence of Difficult Magazines
The small magazine earns loyalty by making a sharper promise than the platforms surrounding it.