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Rebecca Panovka
Rebecca Panovka is a founding editor of The Drift. Her debut novel, Archival Research, is forthcoming from Norton.
The Drift has been called "the lit mag of the moment" by The New York Times and "a new gold standard for the literary magazine" by Jorie Graham. Between editing issues, Rebecca has published essays and criticism in Harper's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bookforum, and elsewhere. She earned a BA from Harvard and an MPhil from Cambridge, where she was a Marshall Scholar.
Selected Essays
"The Holocaust Angle: How a Group of NIMBYs Rewrote Alderney's History," Harper's, February 2024
On conspiracy theories in an English Channel tax haven
"Ad Nauseam," Harper's, December 2021
On Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise
"A Spouse Divided," Bookforum, December 2021
On Dostoevsky's wife, Anna Snitkina, and two new biographies' misguided attempts to celebrate her
"Men in Dark Times," Harper's, July 2021
On the Trump-era misuse of Hannah Arendt
"The Strange Revival of Mabel Dodge Luhan," The New Yorker, June 2021
On Mabel Dodge Luhan, D.H. Lawrence, and Rachel Cusk's Second Place
"Nature's Revenge Porn," The Drift, June 2020
On Tiger King, Leni Riefenstahl, the concept of "wilderness," and Covid-19
"Now More So Than Ever," The Drift, June 2020
On the insularity of the literary media (with Kiara Barrow)
"A Different Backstory for Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon," The LA Review of Books, July 2018
On literary patronage and the cynical marketing of a long-unpublished manuscript
Contact
rmpanovka [at] gmail [dot] com
Please send essay ideas to pitches [at] thedriftmag [dot] com and story submissions to fiction [at] thedriftmag.com.
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