Hard Crackers is guided by one principle: that in the ordinary people of this country (and the world) there resides the capacity to escape from the mess we are in, and a commitment to documenting and examining their strivings to do so.
Issue No. 1, Spring 2016
- Editor’s Introduction
- Some Bullshit by Jarrod Shanahan
- No Pain No Gain by Kingsley Clarke
- Rats by Mike Morgan
- Eeenie Meenie Miney Mo by Gay Pasley
- Huntsville Notes by Curtis Price
- Stevie Lebron by Tony Maniscalco
- Influence by Noel Ignatiev
- Ray by Tom Bura
- American Society
Issue No. 2, Fall 2016
- From a Small New England Town, as told to Noel Ignatiev
- A Sunday in Chinatown, by Amiri Barksdale
- Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock by James Murray
- Eating Good Enough at Rikers Island by Jarrod Shanahan with Ishwar Gajraj
- Occupy the Free State of Jones by Andrew Stewart
- CUNY at the Crossroads (pamphlet reprint)
- When Your Neighbor is BP by Cloee Cooper
- Hacking by Mike Morgan
- Interview with “Nefarious” by Curtis Price
- Prescription Painkillers Overdoses
- Awakening
- Kansas Enlightenment Project
- The Day Frank Got Out of Jail by Joshua Wann
- The Electrifying Mojo by Bill Carney
- Nowhere to Run To by Tony Maniscalco
- About Hard Crackers
Issue No. 3, Fall 2017
- Editors’ Introduction
- Ancestry.com by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
- Poems by Claire Cahen
- Cooperative Exploitation by H.W.
- Into the Hollows by Tim Paulson
- Massage Therapist Escapes Shark Attack, by Gwen Taylor
- Neighborhood Watch by Maud Pryor
- What a Waste of Time by Zhandarka Kurti
- About Hard Crackers
Issue No. 4, Winter 2018
- From the Editors
- It’s a Shelter by Edwin Rivera
- A Life Worth Living by Max Mackay
- Outside In, Inside Out by David Ranney
- Summertime in Mzansi by Salim Washington
- Know Your Neighbors by Mike Morgan
- Service Interruption by Jarrod Shanahan
- Freestyling To Freedom by Tony Maniscalco
- Theater Of Law by Josh Goldfein
- Sports Column by The Left Hook
Issue No. 5, Summer 2018
- From the Editors
- See What Happens Now by Jarrod Shanahan
- Down on the Farm by Dexter Cruthaim
- Nothing Happened by Noel Ignatiev
- Heartland Reunion by Lowell May
- Dutch’s Word by Mike Morgan
- A Coal Miner’s Musings by Cloee Cooper
- Winding Stair Mountain by Richard Dixon
- Booking at David L. Moss by Josh Wann
- Captured in Crown Heights by Benjamin Rubenstein
- Alberti’s Andalusia by Zhandarka Kurti
- Sports Column by The Left Hook
Issue No. 6, Winter 2019
- Editors’ Introduction
- Defining Hard Crackers, from the Editors
- Alabama Trilogy by Curtis Price
- On Disaster Weather Reporting by Mike Morgan
- Vignettes from the Gulf South by Hillary Donnell
- The Panther Burns by Bull Fury
- The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens by John Garvey
- A Cab Ride in Doha by Jenny Morgan
- A Different Population These Days by Jonathan Chabrier
- Not Even in Spanish by Tanzeem Shaneela
- In Memoriam: Lowell May by Kingsley Clarke & Noel Ignatiev
- Sports Column by The Left Hook
Issue No. 7, Fall 2019
- Editor’s Introduction
- Atlantic City and the American Imaginary, by Curtis Price
- With Orlando Pirates by Jenny Morgan
- How the Show Might Stop by John Garvey
- The Fireman by James Livingston
- The Lyceum Was Empty by Kelley Howell
- Eulogy for William Boyd by Mitch Runnels
- Notes of a Hanging Judge by Ron Chism
- But Sometimes They Do by Dexter Cruthaim
- The Vroom Vroom Club by The Left Hook
Special Issue Tribute to Noel Ignatiev, Spring 2021
- Editors’ Introduction
- Noel Ignatiev, 1940-2019 by Jarrod Shanahan
- Noel Ignatiev, a Political Genius by Beth Henson
- “So many of us were students of Noel” by M. Treloar
- My Good and Beloved Companion, My Huck Finn by Robert Gerst
- Learning and Teaching by Justine Johnson
- Moving Noel by John Strucker
- Remembering Mr. Noel “Over the Top” Ignatiev by John Bracey
- Last Phone Call by Geert Dhondt
- Acceptable Men: A Memoir (excerpts) by Noel Ignatiev
- Why Argue? by Joel Olson & Noel Ignatiev
- Duking It Out with Noel by Cloee Cooper & Zhandarka Kurti
- No Condescending Saviors: A Personal Tribute by Gary Fields
- “This relationship might be a short one”: My First Recollections of Noel by Don Hamerquist
- Ambiguous Encouters by Avery D’Agostino
- Noel Ignatiev’s Long Fight Against Whiteness by Jay Caspian Kang
- “Noel may be done with us, but we are not done with him” by John Garvey
- The Natural by The Left Hook
Issue No. 8, Summer 2021
- From The Editors
- “This injustice shit ain’t nothing new”: Thoughts on 2020 from Inside by Kadeem Johnson
- Just Another Swing-State Story by James Stephens
- Where Dreams Go To Die by Shaun
- Portland Pottawatomie, and “The Good Lord Bird” by Marty Brown
- To All the Comrades I Could Have Known by Tim Bruno
- On Gentrification in Brooklyn by John Garvey & Mike Morgan
- 2020 by Matt Capri
- Around the World in Five Days (Sports Column) by The Left Hook
Issue No. 9, Fall 2022
- Editors’ Introduction
- The Power of Everyday Collectivity by Mushahid Hussain
- Bisbee 1984 by Beth Henson
- Here to There by Tim Bruno
- Where is My Brother? by Adelina Gina
- Goin’ Down South by Mike Morgan
- The World in 60 Acres by Bob Myers
- Another Evening on Record Street by Steven Weidman
- Cycling in Italy by Jenny Morgan
- Final Resting Places by Paul Wasserman
- From the Grocery Isles to the Front Lines by Patrick King
- The Left Hook Goes to the Movies (Sports Column) by The Left Hook