The Baffler #85

Always sharp, slightly tongue-in-cheek, The Baffler is a major voice in compelling and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems, and art.

In this issue: Over Under

Issue #85 reminds us that the only guarantee in today’s America, it seems, is that you’ll pay more for less. That’s if you receive anything at all.

Zoë Hu writes on Leslie Fielder and the American refusal to grow up.

David Hill on The Polymarketification of American life.

Alli Warren, First it is undetected then it is planted in air

Jimmy Cajoleas, Her truth is marching on, The Battle Hymn of the Republic

& more...

New York, U.S.A, 17x24cm, 136 pages; September 2026, bi-monthly