Current Issue

In this issue, we consider our pressurised moment and the decompression, or lack thereof, to come. Writer and critic Lauren Oyler tackles the necessary fictions of deadlines while philosopher and cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han proclaims the end of liberalism. Novelist Daisy Hildyard discovers the self while writer Xiaowei Wang challenges the myth of the hard-working immigrant. Elsewhere, Preti Taneja’s TIDE Salon discusses migration and music, Jill Magid looks back on her recent work and Max Porter serves up new fiction.