The Apologist
Love Letters to Moving Art
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Monthly |
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| Issues | 9 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 4 months ago |
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My Neighborhood Shitheads: The Replacements, “Androgynous,” and Minneapolis
Editor’s Note: When I first started talking about this journal, Liv had a million great pitches, and I dropped the ball on all of them while I blew up my life and got off the Internet. Now, it seems it was important that we wait. Minneapoli...
Launch Sequence Activated! Apologist 2026
(Not that I take the art I love seriously… no joke, this is me teaching an Editing and Publishing class. It was very important to me that day that I represent Chas Tenenbaum. For what it’s worth— it’s been a rough year.)
The last pop quiz...
Lost in Space(s): The Internal Wars of Liminal Characters
Editor’s Note: (please cue up the Welcome Back, Kotter theme song!)
As much as I love a good “start with a lyric” post, I hesitated a moment today: The Apologist went on an obvious summer vacation, though I’m back, now, and with one of the...
Poems by A.M. Hayden
Editor’s Note: When I started planning for The Apologist, I’d thrown out all sorts of ways to describe what I was looking for. I kept stumbling on the phrase “academic dissection of low art,” and I was particularly frustrated by it: I didn’...
Anti-Nihilism, Tenacity, & Sonic the Hedgehog
By: Justin Sczesny
Editor’s Note: When I started this project, I was honored and thrilled by how many people immediately had an idea for what they wanted to write about, but I have to say, this was the most unique pitch I received. Sonic t...
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