In March, after a two-year hiatus, The Baffler will return with a dazzling new issue. Behold its cover! Contained therein are thundering new salvos from Thomas Frank, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rick Perlstein, and David Graeber, fiction from Kim Stanley Robinson and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, plus a scintillating assortment of poetry, photography, and satirical art. Both print and digital subscriptions are now available.
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On Tuesday, Metropolitan Books will release Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right, the latest book by Baffler founding editor Thomas Frank. Pity the Billionaire examines how and why our flaccid economy has revitalized the American Right. Frank’s 13-city book tour begins this Wednesday, January 4, in New York City and wraps up in D.C. next month. Details are on the Events page.
For more information about the book, visit the Macmillan site.
]]>We’re very excited that a new Baffler is now guaranteed to come out three times a year for the foreseeable future. We know you are, too.
The next issue is due in March. It will feature new writing from Baffler editors Thomas Frank and Chris Lehmann, as well as essays from Barbara Ehrenreich, David Graeber, Aaron Swartz, and fiction from Russian writer Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. The second and third issues, to be released in both print and digital editions, will appear in June and October.
There’s an article about the deal in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Read it here.
Read the MIT Press announcement here.
Subscribe to The Baffler here. (Current subscribers: Thanks for waiting. MIT Press will be in touch soon.)
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