Square and Circle: The Logic of Occupy
A talk on the last 12 months of the Occupy sequence as it moves into its sophomore year
Special Victims
The problem with "legitimate rape” as coming-of-age story
Missing Captain
Against the strident tones of unmanned-flight boosterism, the reservations of naysayers become just so much noise.
Aide-Mémoire
On April 28th, the Museum of Innocence, the long-awaited realization of Orhan Pamuk’s novel of the same name, opened in one of Istanbul’s more bohemian quarters.
Preservation Society
image by imp kerr In 2004, the exhibition Nanoq: Flat Out and Bluesome opened in Spike Island, a large, white-walled art space in Bristol, England.…
The White Market
Breaking Bad’s “dark” narrative of a man’s embrace of greed, power, and evil cloaks its fundamental endorsement of racial hygiene
Adventures in the Cash Nexus
A review of sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild's The Outsourced Self
City Under Siege
Once the War on Terror began, city dwellers everywhere found themselves living in occupied territories
Too Foreign
Are we reading Clarice Lispector at all, or merely her translators?
The Tryhards
Chris Hayes’s Twilight of the Elites wants it both ways: solving radical problems without radical change.
Why Couldn’t Richard Aoki Have Been an Informant?
The state exploited the very real desire for political solidarity among people of color to advance its agenda
The Thin Blue Lie
Why civilian investigations of police misconduct do more to excuse it than prevent it
If You Build It, They Will Come
Instead if somehow serving the needs of transgender people, a prison reserved exclusively for them merely ensures that unchecked social stigma will result in continued abrogation of justice.
Coming Out of the Coffin
Endlessly secretive, Stoker is the great codifier, the author who dared not speak his own name.
No Epiphanies Whatsoever
In her online columns for Vice, ex-beauty editor Cat Marnell is set to self-destruct, saving her readers the trouble. But is the future we can’t imagine for her the perfect desire we yearn for ourselves? We can have it and long for it at the same time
Hard Blows
Camille Paglia’s greatest merit as a critic is the fact that her literary analysis can double as self-help.