Fully Surreal Luxury Communism
"Bourgeois Art" and "A Note to the Communist Party," essays excerpted from René Magritte: Selected Writings
The New Inquiry Vol. 55: Testing
We’re a few centuries into a world where truth is held to be revealed through tests. In practice, testing does little more than register social fates already at work.
God’s Dice
An excerpt from Eduardo Rabasa's upcoming novel, A Zero-Sum Game (translated by Christina MacSweeney).
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
In art that defines itself by what it withholds from public view lies the challenge for us to do the same
The New Inquiry Vol. 54: Bugs
Editorial note to TNI Vol. 54: Bugs
The New Inquiry Vol. 52: New Masses
Editorial note to TNI Vol. 52: New Masses
Donald Trump: "Donald Trump"
A supercut of Donald Trump saying his own name.
The New Inquiry Vol. 51: Blogroll
An editor's note about your blogs, and ours.
The New Inquiry Vol. 49: Interviews
If all writing in public is a form of seduction, then the interview is one of the subtlest come-ons.
The New Inquiry Vol. 48: Appetites
Appetite binds you to the social and develops a taste for it in you, and for you in it.
Editors' Note, Vol. 47: Goodnight
The editorial note to TNI Vol. 47: Goodnight.
Editors' Note, Vol. 46: Dig
From Palestine to North Dakota, this issue is an open dig site.
Editors' Note, Vol. 45: Cops 2
As the border patrol for all the borders capitalism designs, the very job description of policing ensures that none of its agents can be “good.”
Editors' Note, Vol. 44: Counterfeit
These fakes are just trying to keep it real.
Editors' Note: Vol. 43: The Daddy Issue
The knowledge of paternity is said to be the origin of human society as we know it: that is, born of women's labor but held in men's name.
Black Friday
Alibaba.com, sometimes known as "the Chinese eBay", connects shoppers looking to purchase commodities in bulk directly with manufacturers from across the world. The site encompasses…