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The New Inquiry

Writing Like a Partisan

By Eleanor CarelessJuly 20, 2023
A review of Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Céspedes
Features

Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest!

By Anna Aguiar KosickiFebruary 28, 2023
An excerpt
Essays & Reviews

At the Tip of the Javelin

By Mike GallagherSeptember 13, 2023
Sport, Capital, and the Far Right
Streaming Services

American Sajaegi

By Jaime BrooksAugust 22, 2023
Music chart manipulation is becoming the marketing strategy of reactionaries
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Assets

Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Sunday Reading, August 20 2023

By TNI EditorsAugust 21, 2023
"Purple Haze" (2011) by Suwon Lee Suwon Lee is a Korean-Venezuelan artist with several photographs currently on view at MoMa. This photo, “Purple Haze,” is…
Sunday Reading

Sunday Reading, August 6 2023

By TNIAugust 6, 2023
I Could Not Believe It (2023) Before Sean DeLear was an icon of the “Silver Lake scene”—one of the few Black musicians in a predominantly…
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Sunday Reading

Sunday Reading, July 23rd 2023

By TNIJuly 23, 2023
I Didn't See You There (2022) When you spend time with someone, you see the surrounding world with them, but not as they see it.…
Sunday Reading

Sunday Reading, July 2nd 2023

By TNIJuly 2, 2023
2013 comic from The Knife: End Extreme Wealth  In 2013, Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez wrote that income inequality in the United States was the highest…
Essays & Reviews

Folk Etymologies

By Eleanor SternJune 22, 2023
If language is the problem, it isn't always the solution.
Sunday Reading

Sunday Reading June 18th 2023

By TNIJune 18, 2023
“The Limits of David Foster Wallace” by Isabel Pabán Freed The shape of depression is often hedging. Writers are asked not to hedge; being sure of…
Sunday Reading

Sunday Reading June 4th 2023

By TNIJune 4, 2023
Doom Generation 4k Restoration An uncensored director’s cut of Doom Generation, a “heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki” shot “on location in hell,” premiered at Sundance…
Sunday Reading

Sunday Reading May 13th 2023

By TNIMay 13, 2023
This Sunday, we've curated a selection of reading around the theme of motherhood. “Rather than being universal, motherhood is always figured within a necropolitical, racializing logic that…
Streaming Services

The Summer of Love and the Holy Fair

By Jaime BrooksMay 9, 2023
A Story About American Music Festivals
South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Many Eids

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviApril 30, 2023
Ramadan makes me feel like I'm living inside a Rolling Stones song. It doesn't matter which one
Sunday Reading

Sunday Reading April 30th 2023

By TNIApril 30, 2023
Many years ago, when the internet was far less corporate, a group of readers curated a reading list of the pieces they found most worth…
South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Where's the Information?

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviApril 23, 2023
There will be no American garbage uprising
Features

Midwest

By Kate Zambreno and Sofia SamatarApril 18, 2023
Sofia Samatar is the author of five books, most recently the memoir The White Mosque. Kate Zambreno is the author of nine books, most recently…

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Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By Liz KinnamonJune 27, 2019
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
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Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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