Unified by voice-driven and incisive writing, elegant design and printing, and leftist politics approached through contemporary cultural criticism, OR SHORTS are for readers who want brief and beautiful books. OR SHORTS combines established writers who, freed from the institutional filters of corporate publishing, can push at the edges of their craft, and new writers, bringing fresh takes and distinctive style.

Series I sends you into past and present-day Beirut in crisis, into a Brooklyn food co-op debating boycotting Israeli goods, into the archives of legendary filmmaker Chris Marker, into the operating room of Gaza hospital via the testimony of a Greek surgeon, into the lives of urban Black birders finding community, and into the busiest and quietest post offices in North America, as the USPS teeters on the precipice of closing.

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The OR SHORTS Series I annual subscription is available until November 1, 2026, after which each SHORT will be available to purchase individually, at full retail price, as it releases. The first SHORT will release October 2026.