Meat Market
Anthony Bourdain’s planned market in Chelsea will sell food as authenticity. That leaves little room for the democratization of cuisine he promises.
History Against the Grain
A new global story of food tracks the rise of “middling cuisine,” but neglects to read for the hungry
Bloodless Coop
The success of lab-cultured meat depends on humanity’s desire to eat suffering
Hello From the Same Side
Adele’s single is the musical equivalent of the desire for experiential homogeneity that Trump satisfies.
Continental Drift
The European Union is a grand act of forgetting, but, in the novels of Ágota Kristóf, the violence of Europe's past keeps coming back to the surface
Nightmares of 1965
As part of their early schooling, Indonesians of the Soeharto era were deliberately traumatized by the state
Full Brightness
Sleep tracking apps report passing dreams as waves
An Apology for the Institutionalized Death
Why not go gently into that good night?
The Clock Inside Us
Once a weapon to combat idleness, the clock has become a prosthesis, augmenting the human body to override its need for rest
Poor Sleeping Habits
In Mumbai, public slumber is one way the urban poor reclaim space
The Life and Death of the Graveyard Shift
Working in the middle of the night has its excellent moments. Will we miss them when the robots take over?
Woke Up Dead
The hazy surreality of sleep paralysis mirrors the dysphoria of self-recognition under precarity
Red Light Green Light
For public school teachers, getting rid of tough kids shouldn't be an option
After #CadaanStudies
The responses to a challenge made to colonial relations of knowledge and power show that these relations are still alive and well
Holing Up
In Virginia Lee Burton’s classic children’s book Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel burrowing is a way of settling into the ground, not taming it
A Dark City
An Afro-Russian boy searches for hope and love in the labyrinthine Moscow metro in Hamid Ismailov’s The Underground