nonsite.org typically publishes three issues a year, each containing about five full-length, peer-reviewed essays with scholarly apparatus and other occasional content including review essays, editorial interventions, opinions, and poetry. Since 2011 we have published 54 issues. The aim is to publish work of the highest caliber in fields including art history and criticism, current politics, history, history of science, literary criticism, philosophy, political science, and poetry.

The current issue, 54, on modern painting, published new material by three of the most influential living art historians—T. J. Clark, Julian Bell, and John Elderfield—as well as rising stars in the field—Larissa Dawtyler (Univ. of Basel) and Gordon Hughes (Rice)—in addition to an unpublished 1936 essay by Meyer Schapiro, with an introduction by Todd Cronan and Marnin Young, and an essay on the death of Jesse Jackson by Adolph Reed. We also published issue #53 on “Normativity, AI, and Photographic Realism,” including essays by Samuel C. Wheeler on the status of design intention in LLMs, Walter Michaels and Pawel Kaczmarski on new books by Jensen Suther and Timothy Bewes, Touré Reed was interviewed on “Black History from the Civil Rights Movement to BLM,” Vincent Hiscock discussed the function of idealization in socialist realist photography, and finally Michael Fried interviewed photographer Luc Delahaye. Finally, in August of 2025, we published Issue #52: Missing New Orleans: Twenty Years Since Hurricane Katrina. This double issue invited a series of writers to “come to terms with how New Orleans has been remade in the interests of the investor class even as they’ve leveraged authenticity and nostalgia to placate dissent, and how the battle for a more just city is yet to be won or even waged in any sustained way.”