The White Man’s Boredom
Governing empire was deadening to its administrators, and lethal to its victims
For One Another
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
How the Bronx was Branded
Art moguls, real-estate developers, city institutions, and local elites unite in the name of development for the few, displacement for the many
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Fun With Agamben!
The Italian philosopher of gloom takes a surprising turn
Kill Rock Stars
Jeff Jackson’s new novel is one we’ve all heard before
A Woman Under the Influence
Mary MacLane's spectacular moods first fueled, then failed her
Miracle Devices
The medical-device industry has been mobilized against the patients it purportedly serves
The Sensory Inexplicable
Encounters with two David Wojnarowicz exhibits ask how to feel the history and experience of AIDS in America
On Quitting
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.
How Contempt Became a Genre
On Kevin Young’s Bunk and America’s seething tendencies
Cruel Poptimism
Ariana Grande’s hit single “No Tears Left to Cry” might be the late-summer cipher for living in a lost future
The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World
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
Staging an Epidemic
What is AIDS to you?
Pop at the End
This is what the end of the world sounds like
Work, Supermodel
madison moore’s new book, Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric, centers the present history of black and brown queer ballroom culture