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Death and Life in Great American Cities

By Lena AfridiMay 20, 2019
To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond
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Red Planet

By Lou Cornum and Nick EstesMay 8, 2019
An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
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Whistleblowers Get the Bullet, Too

By Emran FerozApril 15, 2019
Coming forward with the state's secrets is not a ticket to absolution
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Good Design . . . for Whom?

By Monica MohapatraMarch 27, 2019
Aestheticizing the expansion of the prison industrial complex
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The Science and Spectacle of the Swarm

By Zoe SamudziMarch 26, 2019
How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social
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The White Man’s Boredom

By Padraic X. ScanlanMarch 15, 2019
Governing empire was deadening to its administrators, and lethal to its victims
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For One Another

By Sophie LewisJanuary 23, 2019
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
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How the Bronx was Branded

By Shellyne RodriguezDecember 12, 2018
Art moguls, real-estate developers, city institutions, and local elites unite in the name of development for the few, displacement for the many
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We Real Cool

By Lauren JacksonNovember 26, 2018
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
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Fun With Agamben!

By Adam KotskoNovember 12, 2018
The Italian philosopher of gloom takes a surprising turn
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Kill Rock Stars

By Stephen PiccarellaOctober 31, 2018
Jeff Jackson’s new novel is one we’ve all heard before
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A Woman Under the Influence

By Sarah Nicole PrickettOctober 29, 2018
Mary MacLane's spectacular moods first fueled, then failed her
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Miracle Devices

By Derek AyehOctober 23, 2018
The medical-device industry has been mobilized against the patients it purportedly serves
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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
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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.
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How Contempt Became a Genre

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

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