The Next Dissent
The Next Dissent
Our fall issue launches on October 1, with a sharp new look, an all-star special section on “Politics and the Novel,” and, for the first time, fiction.
Our fall issue launches on October 1, with a sharp new look, an all-star special section on “Politics and the Novel,” and, for the first time, fiction.
The “Politics and the Novel” section, edited by David Marcus, includes Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay’s eleven theses on the feminist novel; novelist Benjamin Hale’s refusal to review a book he hates; Vivian Gornick’s reflection on love and political commitment; Cubed author Nikil Saval’s essay on the office novel; Nina Martyris’s survey of literature and insurgency in India; and a parable by Helen Dewitt.
Alongside these essays, the fall issue will feature six fables by Syrian poet Osama Alomar and an excerpt from Brian Morton’s new novel, Florence Gordon.
On the masthead, David Marcus joins Michael Kazin as co-editor, and Dissent also welcomes new editors-at-large Sarah Leonard, Nick Serpe, Tim Barker, and Madeleine Schwartz, new editorial board members Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Kate Losse, and Sarah Jaffe, and new associate editors Kaavya Asoka, Colin Kinniburgh, and Natasha Lewis.
With a new design to boot, courtesy of Rumors, this issue is not to be missed.
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