The White Market
Breaking Bad’s “dark” narrative of a man’s embrace of greed, power, and evil cloaks its fundamental endorsement of racial hygiene
Border Control
For artist and director Alex Rivera, drones are the medium and the message
Spook'd
The New Inquiry's Malcolm Harris and The Los Angeles Review of Books' Evan Kindley talked with Spook Magazine's one-man editorial team Jason Parham about the new publication's founding, goals, and forthcoming first issue.
Obituary: Ray Bradbury
1920-2012
Alone Again Or
Shelia Heti’s first story collection, newly released in the U.S., catalogs the enduring stakes of gender in the rigged game of heterosex
Arms and Legs
Shots fired across the generation gap in an era of indenture.
No Kings of New York
TNI editor sat down for a conversation with the Minneapolis-based hip-hop collective Doomtree.
Time Comes Around
One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of the Pont des Arts taken by Kertész in 1929. Taken from inside the…
Working Beauty
In the opening scene of Julia Leigh’s debut film Sleeping Beauty, Lucy (Emily Browning), our beautiful college-student protagonist, serves as a medical test subject. She leans her head back as the doctor slowly threads a tube down her throat, then fills a balloon in her chest with air while she holds the tube in place.
The Pitfalls of Indie Fame
Editor's note: The following is a piece from way back in the TNI archives, Malcolm Harris writing about Chuck Klosterman in 2001. When we saw the similarities between Klosterman's take-down of tUnE-yArDs and Harris's article – well, we're not accusing anyone of anything, we leave it to you to draw your own conclusions.
Zombie Novel
A review of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One From all accounts, it is Colson Whitehead’s time. The Brooklyn writer, 140-character artist, and MacArthur fellow is set…
A Bridge to Somewhere
From the Brooklyn Bridge to One Police Plaza and back again 3:00 pm: The crowd at Zuccotti Park, larger than any day except the one…
Obituary: Borders Books and Music
The Palo Alto Borders was my psychogeographical center. It seems strange to say that of a store, never mind an outlet of a giant and…
Upping the Antihero
You’re a good cop, but a loose cannon. Give me your badge and gun. Most Americans could write this scene and probably fill in the…
The Ektorp Sofa and the New Normal
I was about to recycle the Harry Potter-length 2011 Ikea catalog when the copy on the cover caught my eye: “Hooray for the everyday.” Next…
Is Entourage Sorry?
I gave up watching Entourage about the same time I gave up flipping through Maxim magazine at newsstands. Even though they both appealed to part of me, it was a dark sad part that I knew I had to grow out of, or risk being stuck in perpetual adolescence. But last summer, my brother was