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Identity Theory An online magazine of literature and culture publishing since 2000. Visit identitytheory.com.

Identity Theory is an online literary magazine and cultural hub that has been publishing original writing, interviews, and other forms of creative expression since 2000.

Sad news.
04/10/2025

Sad news.

His many novels, including the prizewinning “The Butcher’s Boy” and the Jane Whitefield series, could have sympathetic villains and intriguing heroes.

Congratulations to our Best of the Net nominees!
28/09/2025

Congratulations to our Best of the Net nominees!

This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.
21/09/2025

This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.

"FREE couch!It could be totally wild."Read "The Unexpected Poetry of NextDoor Digest" by K.E. Flann
07/09/2025

"FREE couch!
It could be totally wild."

Read "The Unexpected Poetry of NextDoor Digest" by K.E. Flann

He can be scary. He can be sweet. He always rings the doorbell.

"but, that’s past. The future is a sparkling fishhook. All beautiful things concealtheir rough and hanging edges." Read...
01/09/2025

"but, that’s past. The future
is a sparkling fishhook.
All beautiful things conceal
their rough and hanging edges."

Read "Cape Disappointment," a new poem by Brittany
Micka-Foos.

All beautiful things conceal their rough and hanging edges.

We brought snacks. This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.
16/06/2025

We brought snacks.

This week's cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.

"The news did not report that the girls had been tied up, shot, and burnt, or that three of the bodies were found stacke...
08/06/2025

"The news did not report that the girls had been tied up, shot, and burnt, or that three of the bodies were found stacked on top of each other. That night, I knew only that four dead girls had been found in a yogurt shop a few miles from where I sat. Afterwards, when people asked me to babysit, I said no."

At age 15, I couldn’t lose my innocence fast enough.

"The last vacation happened during the summer when it all fell apart—the summer when I had s*x with someone else for the...
08/06/2025

"The last vacation happened during the summer when it all fell apart—the summer when I had s*x with someone else for the first time in ten years, when we thought an open marriage was a good idea and not massively short-sighted, when your drinking reached a fever pitch as your depression held its hand, when I karmically got COVID and sprained my ankle. It was a capstone to a season of chaos and denial, a mess of my own doing."

The last vacation happened during the summer when it all fell apart—the summer when I had s*x with someone else for the first time in ten years.

More micro.
06/05/2025

More micro.

I had hoped for more companions, but the freezing wind carries few.

Micro.
06/05/2025

Micro.

You’d birth the words slowly, tasting them, a poet’s longing on your tongue.

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