ISSUE FIFTEEN

 Winter 2026

Featured
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A Letter from the Editors

What are words for?

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Matt Greene Will Not Explain It to You

Sydney Gordon tells you why that’s a good thing.

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Driving in Circles

Yegor Rubanov runs laps around Timothy Snyder’s On Freedom.

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Was Lincoln Right to Venerate the Constitution?

Professors David Bromwich and Akhil Reed Amar talk shop.

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Bryan Washington’s Urban Utopias

Ashley Wang makes her way through Palaver.

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Quan Millz and the Value of Black Life

Richie George peels back This Hoe Got Roaches in Her Crib.

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Looking Back on Joni Mitchell and Anita Desai

Anna Siciliano considers two artists’ twilight years.

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Interview: Liberalism’s Past, Present, and Future

Samuel Moyn on Cold War liberalism, Hegel, and the power of the old.

Contributor Bios

Sydney Gordon is an English major in Saybrook College with the synesthetic ability to taste words.

Yegor Rubanov enjoys looking out the tram window.

David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale and a faculty advisor of BRINK.

Ashley Wang is from Hong Kong. She wants to make a map of every city.

Richie George is rooting for everybody Black.

Anna Siciliano is writing something in the margins.

David Rosenbloom is a recent graduate of Saybrook College, the Copy Editor of BRINK, and an avid reader of Roget’s International Thesaurus, Seventh Edition.