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The Future Is Female

By Samantha HindsJanuary 19, 2012
In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, women are nowhere and everywhere
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Accounting for Beauty

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoJanuary 17, 2012
Erotic capital doesn’t set us free. It yokes women’s careers to the whims of men
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Scoreboard Jesus

By Elissa LernerJanuary 13, 2012
Can Tim Tebow, the latest American exemplar of “muscular Christianity,” get a witness?
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Not Great Men

By Rob HorningJanuary 12, 2012
Georges Simenon’s The President shows how history swallows its agents.
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Cruise Control

By Max FoxJanuary 10, 2012
Grindr is an app men can put on their phones to find other men to have sex with. But it automates the work that once made a subversive and politically potent world.
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Do Nothing, Be Nothing

By Stephane AllardJanuary 6, 2012
Violence, idleness, and nihilism in Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
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No Resolutions

By JB BragerJanuary 2, 2012
Lauren Berlant wants you to break your New Year’s resolutions. Cruel Optimism at the beginning of the end.
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Be Aware: Nick Kristof’s Anti-Politics

By Elliott Prasse-FreemanDecember 31, 2011
“How can you watch people die in the streets?” “You don’t look, you close your eyes.”
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Who's That Girl?

By Sarah HandelmanDecember 31, 2011
The heroine of Fox’s New Girl has more in common with a logo design than its audience
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The Trouble with Digital Conservatism

By Rob HorningDecember 31, 2011
Conserving the self in a culture of productive narcissism
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You and Mark Aren't Friends

By Giovanni TisoDecember 31, 2011
Facebook’s Timeline turns your old updates into an unexpurgated biography
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The Great Leap Forward

By Patrick HarrisonDecember 31, 2011
The Long March in a New World
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The Search for Posthumanism

By Michael ThomsenDecember 31, 2011
Notes from the 2011 Singularity Summit
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Keira Knightley’s Vagina

By Kartina RichardsonDecember 28, 2011
A Dangerous Method taps the allure of sexual dysfunction
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The Reluctant Writer

By Mary Elizabeth BorkowskiDecember 27, 2011
Recently published work by modernist Mina Loy from Dalkey Archive
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Literary Tantalus

By Ethan HonDecember 23, 2011
The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956 (Edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn, and Lois More Overbeck, Cambridge University Press)  It’s fitting that Samuel…

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