K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one

Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency

Can radical politics harbor a deadening conservatism?

Reflections from the TERF wars about dismantling bigotry on the left

Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play

Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know

Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling

There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.

What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?

23andMe makes the human body immortal at last

Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.

The Florida Project and the New Proletarian Cinema of 2017 tell of the persistence and loss of dreams