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Transformative justice, repairing relationships, redesigning society systemically, accountability for harms. Prisons had to be imagined; prisons were a reform, and like other reforms that leave in place the system of punitive surveillance, control, and violence they don't promote justice for so many harms, while harming more. We can imagine so many alternatives. We don't believe the world will change if we can just change enough minds to e.g. believe that black lives matter; we will define and practice and live a vision for a world where black lives matter.

Disturbing, a thread of attention wandering across the long moment, fixing on the flaws life leaves unfinished. But, that.

If you find yourself engaged in a civil war, don't be so civil about it.

Absurdly wonderful, manipulative without being a mystery, adventurous and so mundane.

Perfect popcorn reading, 80s nostalgic and sci-fi time travel in quick sarcastic bites. (I read the next two too, which wraps it all up in 30 issues, and this review will do for them all.)

Reality is indefinitely separate from our actual experience, our senses of progress and our identities. The short "The New World" essays are stunning philosophical reflections, the bulk is summary commentary on Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville as they conceive of human society which was more dependent on my taste for those voices but still smart.

Poetic commentary (now I love Carson's analytical voice too) on value, money, gratuity, loss, and negation.