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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Where You Were and Are No More: A Sextet of Poems
Chicago-based author and poet Mel Livatino wrote this sextet of poems over the course of twenty years, tracking his wife’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and his grief after her death.
In 2004 my wife Kathy was diagnosed with dementia. Over...
Liberties Book Club: Walter Benjamin
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Another Voice from Israel
The following letter, dated June 17, 2026, on the subject of Jewish terrorism in the West Bank, was addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to his Ministers Israel Katz, Bezalel Smotrich, and Itamar Ben Gvir, to IDF Chief of Staff M...
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My Dead Are Jealous of Your Dead
This is a preview essay from the Summer 2026 issue of Liberties, exclusively available in front of the paywall on Substack. To read more from the Summer issue, visit libertiesjournal.com and subscribe or register to read one free essay per...
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Assistant Publisher at Liberties Journal
intrasubjective hallucination in the latent west; "The Complications" (2024), essays elsewhere
Toronto based writer
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For the past two decades, A.J. Goldmann has covered European culture for American newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Wired and The Christian Science Monitor.
Executive editor Liberties Journal
I am the author of six books, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy Melville House Books) and I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Julia is a writer and PhD student in usable security. She likes hanging around books and bulldogs.
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.
Brooklyn-based writer. Fiction in Wigleaf, Hobart, Eclectica. Essays and Reviews in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, Liberties, Los Angeles Review of Books.
Writer in Paris
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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