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Issue 30/31 · Winter/Spring 2024
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New England without winter is a blessing and a curse. ¡Gracias, El Niño!
Here at Nixes Mate headquarters, graveyard for pirates, mutineers, and booze cruises, we’re excited about our new books, and this issue which features fifteen new authors to Nixes Mate Review.
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Issue 28/29 Summer/Fall 2023
We’re tight into hurricane season here at Nixes Mate Headquarters. No better time than to sit with our Summer/Fall 2023 issue and join the Nixes Mate family.
Issue 26/27 · Winter/Spring 2023
Is it early Spring in New England when it’s 60 degrees Fahrenheit out in February? Is it late winter when, a week earlier, it was -8 degrees Fahrenheit?
Issue 24/25 · Summer/Fall 2022
Welcome to our new world. As we struggled to come out from under the fog of Covid 19, we decided why not shake it up and come out with print editions of the Review.
Issue 23 · Spring 2022
Late again, late again, late again. As Spring creepy crawls out here in Boston Harbor, speech is purchased and war regains its foothold. But poetry and prose and crocuses ...
Issue 21/22 · Climate Change
We must avoid fable, myth, the easier routes to understanding through anthropomorphism. Faced with the crisis of extinction, there is no time for such storytelling.
Issue 20 · Summer 2021
When billionaires spend ten minutes at the edge of space do we cheer and share their exhuberance, or do we pull hammers, saws, and drills out of a tool box ...
ISSUE 19 · SPRING 2021
Boston is creeping back to life. College students travel in packs. Traffic congeals in all the familiar places like crocuses pushing out along the Charles.
ISSUE 18 · WINTER 2021
Among the dislocated shoulders, insurrection, glaucoma, and skies the color and texture of overcooked oatmeal is a hope that the country survives, that the world survives ...
issue 16/17 covid 2020
If 2020 could be summed up in one <em>Twilight Zone</em> episode it would be "Time Enough at Last" from season 1, starring Burgess Meredith as the bookworm who ...
Issue 15 · Spring 2020
Social distancing is a new literature, a bitter cup of surveillance and incompetance that asks us to accept our ruin with equnamity. We quarantine ourselves with tigers ...
Issue 14 · Winter 2020
Welcome to Issue 14 · Winter, 2020. Welcome to an uneasy winter of missiles and summer. Welcome to an uneasy winter of perpetual tardiness and procrastination. ...
ISSUE 13 · FALL 2019
Welcome to our 3rd anniversary issue. Goodbye to the summer of procrastination. Welcome to the fail of corruption, the veil of stupidity. Welcome to pocket door ...
ISSUE 12 · SUMMER 2019
Welcome to Issue 12 and the summer of treason, of treachery, of internment and concentration, of horror and Uranium 235, of tankers and drones, of obfuscation and incompetence, of poetry and prose. ...
ISSUE 11 · SPRING 2019
After an action-packed AWP full of astounding readings, book selling phenomena, and Portlandining with friends we are back in what appears to be the most hated ...
ISSUE 10 · WINTER 2019
Welcome to Issue 10 of Nixes Mate Review. We were shutdown, not because of walls or intractable and genetic stupidity, but because we couldn't leave well enough alone just days before going live. ...
ISSUE 9 · FALL 2018
Our 2nd anniversary is surrounded by the spectacle and the noise. We are adrift on fault lines. Our symptoms of distress are almost too much to bear. And yet ... and yet, poetry ...
ISSUE 8 · SUMMER 2018
With every new horror, with every new heatwave, with every norm a carcass swept up in the dustbin of history there is always poetry and literature and the ocean's navigational hazards ...
ISSUE 7 · SPRING 2018
The Spring that never starts is the Spring that is sorely missed, unless you like Nor'easters. Our fabled navigational hazard was slashed and bashed about and funneled up to her gunwales. ...
ISSUE 6 · WINTER 2018
Up here in Boston we could use some of that fabled global warming everyone's talking about. Our navigational hazard namesake is encrusted with a briny rime. With climate change ...
ISSUE 5 · FALL 2017
Hurricanes, both politically and meteorologically, have dominated the news this past year. If you step outside of that entropic, emotionally draining funnel of fake fake fake news ...
ISSUE 4 · SUMMER 2017
Summer, that season of discontented contentment when the twin-barreled human indulgences of violence and leisure become an estranged microburst; when tree branches, pedestrians ...
ISSUE 3 · SPRING 2017
Spring came early in Boston this winter. But now that it is Spring, Winter spits its last breath at us. As we edited this issue, a theme emerged that surprised us ... Death. That infamous black page. ...
ISSUE 2 · WINTER 2017
We experienced an election of discontent. They tore down the old Allston/Brighton tolls. The weather in Boston remains execrable. Our friend's shop in Brooklyn, that we helped build ...
ISSUE 1 · FALL 2016
Welcome to Nixes Mate Review. Out of the ashes of the 1980s Allston zine scene comes a new journal of hand-crafted artisanal literature. We are excited about our first issue. ...
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Primer 1 · ANARCHISM · EMMA GOLDMAN
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Primer 2 · SEX · SOCIAL CULTURE PUBLICATIONS
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Primer 3 · THE AMERICAN FRUGAL HOUSEWIFE · Lydia Maria Child
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Primer 4 · PLAGIARISM® MADE EASY · MONTY CANTSIN & KAREN ELIOT
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Primer 5 · SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE A CUT-UP POEM WITH PLANTS · GUY DEBORD & D’ENTREMONT
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Primer 6 · SMILE OR WHAT IS NEOISM? · MONTY CANTSIN & KAREN ELIOT
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Primer 7 · MEMES QUIPS QUOTES SLOGANS SKULLS · CURATED BY MICHAEL MCINNIS
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Primer 8 · IS ANARCHY POSSIBLE? · Alexander Berkman
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Primer 9 · Witches · CURATED BY MICHAEL MCINNIS