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Essays & Reviews

The Sensory Inexplicable

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezOctober 19, 2018
Encounters with two David Wojnarowicz exhibits ask how to feel the history and experience of AIDS in America
Essays & Reviews

On Quitting

By Keguro MachariaSeptember 19, 2018
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.
Essays & Reviews

How Contempt Became a Genre

By Michael DangoSeptember 11, 2018
On Kevin Young’s Bunk and America’s seething tendencies
Essays & Reviews

Cruel Poptimism

By Charlie MarkbreiterAugust 31, 2018
Ariana Grande’s hit single “No Tears Left to Cry” might be the late-summer cipher for living in a lost future
Essays & Reviews

The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World

By Liz BowenAugust 13, 2018
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
Essays & Reviews

Staging an Epidemic

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezAugust 10, 2018
What is AIDS to you?
Essays & Reviews

Pop at the End

By Adlan JacksonJuly 31, 2018
This is what the end of the world sounds like
Essays & Reviews

Work, Supermodel

By Niko MaragosJuly 27, 2018
madison moore’s new book, Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric, centers the present history of black and brown queer ballroom culture
Essays & Reviews

The Loves of Others

By Hannah BlackJune 22, 2018
You don’t have to be a couple to participate in the couple form. In fact there is nothing else to do
Essays & Reviews, Features

A World More Beautiful and Alive: A Review of The Extractive Zone

By Megan SpencerJune 4, 2018
From Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Colombia, and Bolivia, Macarena Gómez-Barris describes “submerged perspectives,” the decolonial ways of knowing that unsettle colonial relationships to land and the forms of violence they reproduce.
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

The Diasporist of Drohobycz

By Nathan GoldmanMay 7, 2018
A new translation of Bruno Schulz’s stories reveals the local in vitalist understandings of diaspora that do not need to claim a Jewish state to flourish
Essays & Reviews

Some Blues but Not the Kind That’s Blue

By Lavelle PorterApril 30, 2018
In music and literature, Jay-Z and Percival Everett meditate on maturity, black masculinity, and the confessional drive of the artist’s life
Essays & Reviews

Black Mirrors

By Alexandria SmithApril 11, 2018
Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora
Audio, Essays & Reviews

Like a Dog

By Jacob BacharachApril 9, 2018
Despite what Shakespeare thought of dogs, they are like heroes who risk betrayal and harm by their own nature.
Essays & Reviews

Polar Amplifications

By Maya WeeksApril 6, 2018
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there

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