Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Kids in the Haul
From Nazi Austria to late capitalist Florida, a list of the shit we list
Introduction
No Carries, no Samanthas, no Charlottes, no Mirandas
Promotional culture on Facebook
On social media you are not just the product but the ad
The Hasheesh Eater
I could not doubt it. I was in the power of the hasheesh influence. My first emotion was one of uncontrollable terror...
Interiors - Il Conformista
To understand Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970), it’s essential to understand the history of the EUR district in Rome and its deep ties with fascism...
A Teen's Guide to Stoner Cinema
For too long film critics have focused on the drugs actors and directors are taking, when they should be looking at the audience
The Future Is Femme
In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, women are nowhere and everywhere by Samantha Hinds A tea-soaked palette floods recession London. In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, we see the khaki…
Sunday Reading
[content goes here] [this is where the content goes] [where does it stop? When does it become content?]
Google Alert for the Soul
Personal authenticity as "inner truth" is incompatible with the constant self-performance on social media.
Beauty Blogosphere 4.12.13
The world's most beauty-based art collection, Barbie shrines, Lizzie Wurtzel's beauty tips, and more.
Everything resembles the truth
But now that the past itself has been persuaded of its own ambiguity, as if nothing had happened, what is left to be exposed?
So You Want to Be a #Longreads Superstar
Putting essays online isn't just about the future viability of the form, it's changing the reasons we read and write.
Autofill Mythologies
To use Google autofill is to view the world through an unhappy tourist's eyes: down an upturned nose, only the simplest sniping stereotypes filling the blank.
Bookin' It
A piece of news that I'm excited about, personally and professionally: I'll be spending the next year writing a book on beauty, to be published…
Diner Forty Niner
There may have been gold in "them thar hills," but there wasn't much to eat
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
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.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
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.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
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.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks