Vol. 31 Editor’s Note: Mourning
Death comes whenever, always in season and always out of season
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Editors’ Note, Vol. 30: Volume 30
Read together, the essays in this volume address the cardinal problems the New Inquiry attempts to grapple with.
Editors’ Note, Vol. 29: Queens
A queen stands alone, fixed in place, with her subjects arrayed around her. This means she is also outnumbered.
Vol. 28 Editors’ Note: Borders
Borders hold the power to transform the motives and consequences of our lives.
Huw Lemmey Goes Sunbathing
Contributor Huw Lemmey’s tale of flippant Ivy Leaguers in countries exploding with the Eurozone Debt Crisis protests, sweaty and horny and looking for a compatible…
Vol. 27 Editors’ Note: Money
The editorial note to The New Inquiry Magazine, Vol. 26: Consent
Vol. 26 Editors’ Note: Consent
The editorial note to The New Inquiry Magazine, Vol. 26: Consent
Vol. 25 Editors’ Note: H8
“Those who hate you can’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself,” said not Martin Luther King Jr. or Gandhi but that gentle soul Richard Nixon...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 25
Some of the more skeptical out there might begin to wonder why they need advice for an end of time that doesn’t seem to be getting here.
Vol. 24 Editors’ Note: War by Other Means
Sports lends itself to abstraction. A whole baseball game gracefully nestles into a box score; football and basketball playbooks look like charts for a free-jazz board game...
Vol. 23 Editors’ Note: Shelter
We are always a target, whether we feel the cross hairs on us or not. There are no shelters. There is no fortress...
Vol. 22 Editors’ Note: Self-Help
Happiness, fitness, long-life, wisdom, creativity: all these things have been just within reach since Marcus Aurelius. Yet, somehow, we don’t seem to be getting any better...
Vol. 21 Editors’ Note: Witches
“Witch” stands for all those unnamable shadow acts of disappearance and withdrawal, self-cultivation and self-medication that elude the social and sexual order...
Vol. 20 Editors’ Note: Off-Brand
We are told we must be clothed, and then that our clothes are not good enough...