The New Inquiry

World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Khalili

By Jake RommOctober 2, 2024

A new book on the political economy of shipping covers how the labor behind global supply chains has both transformed since post 9/11 securitization and remained brutally the same since shipping's earliest days.

The Austerity Kitchen

No morsel more delicious than a ripe book...

By Christine BaumgarthuberJune 26, 2012

"Bibliophiles are gastronomes, gourmets, gourmands, epicures..."

The Beheld

No, You're So Pretty: Compliments, Part I

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoJune 26, 2012

In a study of more than a thousand compliments, women accepted compliments from other women 22% of the time. When they came from men? 68%.

Zunguzungu

7 Days of Queer Theory

By Aaron BadyJune 25, 2012

On Facebook last week, my friend Ramzi Fawaz posted a different Queer Studies quote each day, in honor of SF Pride. I enjoyed the quotes, so with his permission, I reprint all seven, with his (brief) introductions.

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Onesies

By TNIJune 25, 2012

Here at The New Inquiry, we worry that we haven't published enough content on pieces of clothing that - in and of themselves - constitute outfits. That ends now.

Essays & Reviews

Bathrobe Boy

By David KlionJune 25, 2012

Mid-century pattern for a men's bathrobe I don’t have a novel in me, but a novel has me in it. Although I consider myself a writer,…

Essays & Reviews

The Suit

By Miranda TrimmierJune 25, 2012

Recently I came across a twelve-part essay on fashion by a French novelist and intellectual. It was a predictably tweedy take on the act of…

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The Zentai Project

By Sohayl VafaiJune 24, 2012

Three students at the University of Maryland dressed in latex Zentai suits and visited the National Gallery of Art, where they posed in front of (and as) art.

Zunguzungu

Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyJune 23, 2012

Once more, into the brink.

Essays & Reviews

Enigma Deviations

By Max FoxJune 22, 2012

Codebreaker and pioneering computer scientist Alan turing’s life and death illustrate how spies often feel the need to encrypt their personal lives

The Beheld

Beauty Blogosphere 6.22.12

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoJune 22, 2012

Fifty Shades of Grey makeup, the world's most beautiful women announced at long last, Big Brother helps you choose your outfit, and more.

Essays & Reviews

Yids

By JB BragerJune 21, 2012

Jenna Brager reviews Leela Corman's graphic novel Unterzakhn, mining tenement life and for a Jewish identity without Israel.

The Austerity Kitchen

Bundle Theory

By Christine BaumgarthuberJune 20, 2012

How modesty survived the custom of sharing beds with all comers remains one of New England's oldest mysteries.

South/South

Iranophobia 2.0

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJune 20, 2012

One might come to cynically expect the trickle-down discriminatory treatment Iranians (including those with U.S. citizenship, which both Sabet and Jafarzadeh retain) from the government, who views Iran as its number-one enemy. Facing it while picking up an iPhone at the mall is disdain cut from an unexpected cloth.

Essays & Reviews

Violence in ENGL 329: The 19th Century English Novel

By Ryan HealeyJune 20, 2012

The phantom Canadian girlfriend of the Ivies did significantly go on strike, at last, for a week, in a few departments, when bros from Connecticut found their Billy Budd lecture blocked by someone else’s history.

Marginal Utility

We Were Promised Hot Tubs

By Rob HorningJune 19, 2012

Bob Welch and the glories of the lost ideal of 1970s adulthood

Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019

An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli

Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By LazzJune 27, 2019

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.

Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018

A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons

Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017

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.

Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017

The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.

Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017

The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over

Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017

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.