Our Brand Could Be Your Crisis
We Are Your Friends is not our youth, but it might as well be
Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
Top or Bottom: How do we desire?
What do queer memes of a top shortage reveal about the racialized orders of desire and new directions for gay critique?
The Judge From Central Casting
Repeat a word enough and it starts to sound so weird that sense dissolves into questions about language itself. Take the word “life”: Why are…
A Reading from ‘Gharavi’s Bio’
TNI contributor and blogger Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Brian Droitcour
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
by Allison C. Meier
On Quitting
Most often when I talk about building a life, I have meant something closer to saying that I cannot imagine—or desire—a life here.
Vol. 68 Editor’s Note: Classics
This issue is a return, to grounds for other departures
How Contempt Became a Genre
On Kevin Young’s Bunk and America’s seething tendencies
Conversación Los Abajocomunes
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in conversation on the occasion of the Spanish translation of The Undercommons
Cruel Poptimism
Ariana Grande’s hit single “No Tears Left to Cry” might be the late-summer cipher for living in a lost future
kburd: Caliban Responds
KBURD: Short for “K but u rong doe“. Used when you know arguing is pointless but you need them to know they’re still wrong. —Urban…
The Work of Art in the Age of Xerox Reproduction
By Erica Eisen
Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control
By Kaitlin Stack-Whitney
The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World
Staging disability in an apocalyptic future, the film A Quiet Place insists that we think beyond a logic of functionality if we want to survive environmental crisis