April Selections

By Brad Cohan

APR 2018 | Music

Brad Cohan’s April Selections.

From The Factory

by Hiroko Oyamada, translated from the Japanese by David Boyd

SEPT 2019 | Fiction

As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds. “Hello, I’m here for a two o’clock interview,” I said to the overweight woman seated under a sign that read Print Services Reception. Without looking up, she nodded and lifted the receiver. I watched her mouth the words. Your two o’clock is here. Her lipstick had come off in places.

Inside the "Muslim Factory": NEDJIB SIDI MOUSSA with Felix Baum

By Felix Baum

FEB 2018 | Field Notes

The Muslims produced by this social factory are not necessarily believers, they don’t necessarily practice Islam, go to the mosque, eat halal etc.—they are rather a kind of sub-nationality, similar to the Muslims in ex-Yugoslavia or those in Lebanon at the time of the French protectorate.

From the factory to the warehouse

By Dan Nemser, Alejo Stark, and Duncan Tarr

JUNE 2019 | Field Notes

On September 10, 2016, a riot broke out at Kinross Correctional Facility, located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In response to both local conditions as well as the call put out for a national prisoner strike, those confined at Kinross refused to show up to their jobs and organized a protest march in the prison yard.