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.
The Cult of the Chafing Dish
Convenient and easy to use, this storied piece of cookware won the devotion of everyone from confirmed bachelors to college co-eds
The Semiautobiographers
A phalanx of recent books by women are refusing old-fashioned plot structures and paying special attention to the unruly sexual lives of their characters. Is this the way to liberation?
On Being a Fat Child
I'd like to reconcile body positivity with the lived experience of having grown up fat. I'm not sure if I can.
"a disease that would reveal itself to be incurable: the ever more widespread and pressing war of women"
"if the paternal authority that sometimes manifests itself in a merited spanking was to lessen, the family would go to ruin.”
Serious action
By giving immediate access to the outer reaches of our social networks, the internet encourages us to take social risks to define our character in a moment rather than accept the embedded identity we build over time
Ghost World (Like a Bad Dream)
On love, ghosts, and Lawrence Kasdan's 1988 film The Accidental Tourist
Do yoga and vote
Huff the fumes of the bile of your enemies from a garbage bag and vote
Muckrakers, Inc.
To work at the New York Post, you need both optimism and boundless cynicism
World Melodrama: All That Heaven Allows, 1955
A deer that stalks the scenes of their coupling like a mute, dewy nightmare.
Tuesday
The "fugly feminist" trope didn't begin in the '70s, folks. Anti-suffrage postcard, early 20th century (more). It wasn't that long ago that women didn't have…
Teenage Paparazzo @ Spectacle Theater 11/7
Join TNI at Spectacle to celebrate the release of our 10th Issue on gossip for a screening of Adrian Grenier's 2010 documentary Teenage Paparazzo. Get…
Encounters With Lindsay
If you go to enough rooftops in New York or pool parties in Los Angeles or fashion parties in Paris, you will see Lindsay...
The Vastness of the Self in Unpeopled Exile
Anyone staring at my face framed in the little window at that moment would have glimpsed a man filled with shadows of an absent presence. Amidst old Europe one is awash in the idea of America as a new fatherland.
TONIGHT: Kate Zambreno w/ Laurie Penny @ Unnameable Books
This Friday join The New Inquiry at Book Court to celebrate the release of Kate Zambreno's new memoir in the form of a history of…
Sunday Reading
"Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task / Does not divide the Sunday from the week." -- Marcellus in Shakespeare's Hamlet
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