Permission

Alexander Billet March 17, 2021

When someone tells you / that you do not deserve / your $600 a week, / that you are only / worth something / when gasping / for air… / don’t despair.

editorial

Locust 14 is Coming: Is Capitalist Realism Over?

Locust Arts + Letters Collective

October 26, 2026

Locust 14 is Coming: Is Capitalist Realism Over?

Locust Arts + Letters Collective

October 26, 2026

We are finalizing Locust Review 14, “Is Capitalist Realism Over?” Locust Review has always been influenced by Mark Fisher’s discussion of capitalist realism. But what if capitalist realism — tied to the political center — is over? As AI slop is weaponized into fascist aesthetics, as the ghosts of Stalin and Kautsky are resurrected on the left, as absurdities mount, has the mainstream prohibition on radical alternatives morphed into something else? Locust Review 14 will feature:

Locust Arts + Letters Collective

October 26, 2026

art

Tish Turl + Adam Turl

March 15, 2026

Soup for Your Family

Tish Turl + Adam Turl

March 15, 2026

Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Soup for Your Family - tree, pantyhose, Campbell’s soup cans (2026)

Tish Turl + Adam Turl

March 15, 2026

Born Again Labor Tract 50: Self-Portrait with Redacted Atrocity #1

Tish Turl + Adam Turl

January 26, 2026

Born Again Labor Tract 50: Self-Portrait with Redacted Atrocity #1

Tish Turl + Adam Turl

January 26, 2026

Tish Turl and Adam Turl: Born Again Labor Tract 50: Self-Portrait with Redacted Atrocity #1 - mixed-media collage and painting, digital prints, acrylic, marker, glitter, graphite, ink, coffee, stickers, cotton and ash on salvaged "thrift store painting," approx. 38 x 27 inches (2026)

Tish Turl + Adam Turl

January 26, 2026

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Adam Turl

September 30, 2026

Healing the Broken Social Ensemble

Adam Turl

September 30, 2026

I fell in love with Anupam’s work because it isn’t “what it is,” it's something more. Anupam’s work is like slip healing fragments of broken clay.

Adam Turl

September 30, 2026

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Ed Sheeran

Alexander Billet

September 25, 2026

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Ed Sheeran

Alexander Billet

September 25, 2026

Because Ed Sheeran doesn’t exist. Not really. He may have at one point, but the avatar that cried onstage in Philadelphia and wants you to cry for him isn’t, in the end, a human with their own wants and needs, separate from the system he’s spent so much effort ingratiating himself to. Make enough decisions that fail to mark where you stand in relation to history, and you eventually vanish completely. Incapable of love, of fairness, of courage or even a modicum of individuality. Just another piece of flotsam aimlessly drifting through the tepid flow of capital.

Alexander Billet

September 25, 2026

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Alexander Billet

July 30, 2026

Cruelty

Alexander Billet

July 30, 2026

Don’t worry. / Don’t hesitate. / You are good. / You are righteous. / And righteous goodness / can never be cruel.

Alexander Billet

July 30, 2026

Letter to the Young Queers from Someone who Accidentally Got Old

Tish Turl

July 28, 2026

Letter to the Young Queers from Someone who Accidentally Got Old

Tish Turl

July 28, 2026

One day I woke up / and somebody called me “elder,” / and I almost checked my pulse. / Then I remembered— / queer years run on dog-time.

Tish Turl

July 28, 2026

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Irrealist Combat League

November 28, 2023

Theses on the Theatrical Party

Irrealist Combat League

November 28, 2023

The Theatrical Party embraces the organization of pessimism in contrast to the false optimism of the left. To be a revolutionary pessimist is to separate the political actor from their role. It is this separation which, in the epic theater of Brecht, invited a critical outlook on the performance from its participants and spectators — the first step in the transformation of spectators into collaborators, a task integral to both theater and the forging of a revolutionary party.

Irrealist Combat League

November 28, 2023

Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl

October 31, 2023

Constructing Counter-Imaginaries

Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl

October 31, 2023

We want a record of the real in the work — as in the cotton and ash — as well as reclamations of our history and imaginaries constructed against the limits of working-class imaginations by capitalist realism. So the individual pieces are sort of vignettes of class pathos and poetry, often in an irreal idiom, and all together representing, as much as we can, the limitless expansive nature of these stories in aggregate.

Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl

October 31, 2023

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R. Faze

July 5, 2026

My Body Maps Political Forces

R. Faze

July 5, 2026

It was four years since the attempted self-immolation by my body. Three years since my body was named The Idiot. Two years since The Idiot had any contact with sister, mother or father. A year and a half since The Idiot’s prayers had been answered. In the wrong way.

R. Faze

July 5, 2026

Adam Marks

July 4, 2026

The Boredom Artist

Adam Marks

July 4, 2026

THE BOREDOM Artist was set to retire. He would give one more performance. London’s Festival Hall was sold out as a result. Last chance to see. One-thousand seven-hundred and ten people, people who liked and appreciated what he did, would go with Dave to a place he had never gone before, though midnight, past the hour-mark. A clock behind them counted down.

Adam Marks

July 4, 2026

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December 1, 2025

Locust Radio Ep. 31 - Lucky 13

December 1, 2025

In Locust Radio 31, Tish and Adam read poems from the forthcoming issue, discuss Trumpism and art in Venice, and try to unpack the editorial for Locust Review 13. Tish and Adam also listen to the song “Dortn” by Sister Wife Sex Strike.

December 1, 2025

May 3, 2025

Locust Radio Ep. 30 - Evicted from Heaven and Earth

May 3, 2025

In this book, Adam traces the haunted landscapes left behind by capital—abandoned factories, broken promises, digital ghosts—and asks what it means to make art in a world where both Heaven and Earth seem to have shut their doors. It’s part art theory, part manifesto, part séance. And in true Locust Radio fashion, it’s not just a critique—it’s a search for openings.

May 3, 2025