The pleasures of piracy aren't in the digital goods themselves but in the fantasy that they make pirates necessary to other people's pleasure

The Phantom Menace is George Lucas's updated mythos for a cynical consumerist age — magical thinking without magic.

Marilynne Robinson's essay collection is about the role of the critic in helping us to remember, to not forget, our potential as humans.

Comedians like Tina Fey pretend to be plain to avoid the trap of being dismissed as being too pretty to be funny. This can spill over into a slut-shaming tendency that belies their faux feminism

The up-and-coming French philosopher is St. Paul to his Mallarmé Jesus

The numbers that survive in my phone don't belong to those boys and men who were best at fucking me, but the ones who were, and are, best at telling me how—and why, and where, and also in which places—they would fuck me.

Russia Today, the politsiya, and Western punks alike all want to know: Who is Pussy Riot, when is their next gig, and where can I…

What is perhaps most significant about Gibson's fiction, then, is what he chooses not to write about. None of his nine novels has been set in a world that requires the annihilation of our own.

I spent an earlier chapter of my life not as someone who played basketball, but as someone whose entire identity was structured and defined by being a basketball player. Basketball was my special pass-card that allowed me into the zone of black America, a realm that didn’t belong to me.

How social media help naturalize network-driven capitalism and the sort of flexible, endlessly productive subject it requires

What is more confining than vast empty spaces?