Liberties is an independent quarterly journal of ideas that publishes serious, stylish, and controversial essays.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Montaigne Liberties Reading Group: On The Cannibals
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Minor Heresy
In Sidebar, Jennie Lightweis-Goff writes about grief and Jesus Christ Superstar. She is an Instructor of English at Louisiana State University and the author of Captive City and Blood at the Root.
2024
The hill I want to die on is...
Fairfield Paint-By-Numbers Porter
In this week’s Sidebar, Celeste Marcus reviews the recently closed Fairfield Porter show at the Arts Students League in New York. Although Porter is a painter whom she has admired through digital screens, her experience of his work when sta...
Liberties Book Club: Montaigne I (On Solitude)
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William Blake’s Lost Children
In 1794, William Blake published Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The poems he wrote depicted the brutal exploitation of children in London, forced to do dangerous manual labor and sell themselves for sex. Mark Edmundson writes that th...
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Assistant Publisher at Liberties Journal
Flâneuse, scholar, and writer. Jennie in jammies, Dr. LG on the dotted line. Author of Blood at the Root (2011), Captive City (2024), Porgy's Cart (2026), and The Chef's Sabbath (soon).
Executive editor Liberties Journal
Lifelong obsessive quester. I cycle through fixations; currently: artistic sensibility, Jean Rhys, unconscious thought, Icelandic place names. Published in Liberties & Electric Literature. Forthcoming in The Philosopher & The Madrid Review.
Author of The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) and A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen (Yale University Press, 2017) European liaison, @libertiesjournal
Ancci (b. Kamaldeen Moyosore Arasi) writes from Ibadan, Nigeria.
Journalist | Author | Explorer | Iran-Japan-Fargo roots | Piano tinkerer
Writer, Investigative Journalist, and Researcher at the University of Exeter. Voice for the voiceless-dedicated to documenting human rights, capturing untold suffering, and bringing deep, impactful narratives from Gaza to the world.
Novelist/Critic - Mots: New Statesman, New Republic, Nation, Liberties, The Point, Poetry Magazine, Commonweal. Books: Venus&Document (2022) The Unified Field of Loneliness (2019)
A writer, director & peace activist from Tel-Aviv, living in NYC. Shortly after Oct 7, Tamar co-founded Israelis For Peace to mobilize for a ceasefire & hostage deal, an end to the occupation & a shared Israeli-Palestinian future.
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