How Many Licks
What are we actually getting at when we talk about “sucking dick”?
Bend It Like Benglis
Lynda Benglis’s portrait of herself scandalized not because it supplanted the phallus but because it ridiculed it
Dick Picky
Critique My Dick Pic has convinced its proprietor that the female gaze is not homogeneous
♫ Roxane ♫
With a bestselling book and a new site, Roxane Gay is a welcome threat to mainstream feminist sensibilities
Venerated Members
Europe’s history of penis worship was cast aside when the Catholic church realized Jesus’s foreskin was too potent to control.
View From Nowhere
On the cultural ideology of Big Data
We Can Be Heroes
By associating itself with the selfish pleasures of visibility, the wearable camera GoPro has staved off criticism for how it enhances surveillance
Violence Is Mine
Post-internet art reflects a certain undercurrent of violence without being didactic about its source.
A Deluxe Apartment in the Sky
A few network stars can't hide the fact that the black family sitcom is in deep decline
Carceral Educations
Re-entry programs can’t fix the problems of the systems they replicate
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
Zahira Kelly answers readers’ questions on sex appeal, gentrification, and escaping abusive relationship dynamics.
The New Kid
Joseph Harms’s debut novel of high school depravity Baal is trying too hard in all the right ways
Making It: A Miseducation
In a place where succeeding means leaving, good grades are fraught with contradictions
Sleepwalking Through the Ruins
Maurizio Lazzarato's latest book seeks to answer, “What is to be done?”
Our Fellow Travelers
Soviet painter Alexandr Deineka shared with Spike Lee a commitment to building worlds that are safe for black youth
Not for Teacher
The fight documented in Dana Goldstein’s The Teacher Wars may be a lost cause