To celebrate the conclusion of our subscription drive, TNI offers all readers free, downloadable guidebook collecting Michael Seidenberg's complete unsolicited advice column from the first year of The New Inquiry Magazine, for your reference on today’s apocalypse and the many more to come.
We may not have all died today, but 12/21/12 has indeed marked our passage over a very particular sort of event horizon: we have been overtaken by our own abstractions.
The start of unfinished epic poems concerning the present situation, and its origins in the deafening plop of the third housing bubble, carved deep into the wallpaper of the Oak River Conference Room.
Between the association of bare legs with "cheapness" and pantyhose with conservative fields and regions, is there a connection between nylons and conservatism?
Donnie Andrews’ life—in print and onscreen fictionalization—reads like a composite of several different lives, enlarged and textured by seeming extremes.
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.