We are sponsoring an event to celebrate contributor Cecilia Aldarondo's film, Memories of a Penitent Heart. In Conjunction with Rox's Current Exhibition POLISH Featuring Over…
The New Inquiry presents a live version of issue no. 29, Queens. The evening includes presentations and performances by Alexis Blair Penney, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Derica Shields, and Hannah Black. Jarvis…
An announcement from our new Editor in Chief: The New Inquiry's staff has distinguished itself through their exploration of ideas removed from the pretensions of…
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.