Issue Fifteen is here –– five years to the day from our launch in 2020! 🧵

From ‘The Silence in My Kitchen’ by @Hamadashoo for @thedrift_mag

“Miraculously, we still made decisions.” Jessica Laser’s Issue Fifteen poem “Hindsight” grapples, fittingly, with seeing and with direction. https://t.co/NWzjYQH7ZG

Translated from the Korean by Jack Jung

You know we’re cooked when the new editor in chief of CBS News started her career in journalism by trying to get college professors fired.

“Joe Biden and Donald Trump separately visited Texas on the same day to present their respective plans for cracking down on border crossing.” —Gabriel Antonio Solis’s “Borderlands, Betrayed,” in @thedrift_mag & our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list:

“The hero tries to drown his daughter in the bathtub. He does it as if he knows it’s a movie” — T. J. Cusano https://t.co/vx5d89SLdI

“My kitchen is my CNN Newsroom, and the potatoes are sprouting.” —@sashadm https://t.co/MMOxPHBodg

Someone finally let me write about love island!

As the second week of the new season of Love Island Games draws to a close, Associate Editor @salihabayrak_ takes stock of the outsized sense of importance fans have begun to ascribe to Love Island contestants’ political views. https://t.co/qsF112cUhg

In this Issue Fifteen short story, “Mormon Lake Hotshots,” @chekhovscoyote writes about wildfires, shadowy intruders, and retribution. https://t.co/B6anFMn5Rf

WAIT i didnt knw they tweeted this aw :,)

“Gaza is still Gaza, even under siege. But scarcity is a cruelty that determination alone cannot overcome.” Grateful to @Hamadashoo for sharing his words with us: https://t.co/dSLG8mjcmH

My words from Gaza are now published in The Drift. This is my story of hunger, survival, and resistance through food

"I thought about how much it meant for the people of Gaza to taste something that felt like home, even if only for a moment. I foraged wild khubeza when the spinach ran out. I mixed herbs together to replace what I could no longer find." -@Hamadashoo https://t.co/ctFRDyGeMZ

The first piece from our next issue is up, from a set of Dispatches on food and famine in and beyond Gaza: an extremely moving reflection from Hamada Shaqura on cooking during genocide.

In the first preview of our Issue Sixteen Dispatches on food politics, @Hamadashoo discusses the Gazan culinary tradition assaulted by years of Israeli blockade and bombing, and his own experience cooking in the midst of genocide. https://t.co/IAqgM9E9xg

“that was never really meant to happen I still want a part of desperate living even with the jaws getting sick of general pacifism but that’s all in an evening screening .” — @blk_blk_blk_blk https://t.co/cxS6s84YT8

“I can hardly dream straight . this is the mystery of art , it seems to wither to death before you , conceptually ,” — @blk_blk_blk_blk https://t.co/d8GO9M8LP5

In two Issue Fifteen poems, @blk_blk_blk_blk gives us our world in all its overwhelming urgency and then gives us a break. https://t.co/IQnGcejSUT

“Many have described the president’s appeal as a cult of personality,” @topefolarin writes in Issue Fifteen, “but his supporters’ devotion is perhaps better understood as a cult of faith — a passionate belief in his ability to bend others to his will.” https://t.co/uouyEnvRni