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.
Value-seeking surveillance and The Hunger Games
Vicariousness as a system of control in The Hunger Games -- both the novel and the zeitgeisty phenomenon
My wife left ... on the arm of a svelte yogurt distributor
"The scale over there across the street is truly an ingenious device...."
The Gloom of the System
The participants in Colombia's student protests came to discover the flawed reality of reality itself.
Old and damned like a grave
if someone comes at me with the whole oh you're a superstar angle, i just play that character, but:
Sunday Reading
It's Sunday somewhere.
Social graph vs. social class
Thinking about society as a network makes it harder to conceive of social change
An Interview with George Scialabba
Saul Steinberg, “Labyrinth,” The New Yorker, 1960 In February, New Inquiry editors sat down with essayist and critic George Scialabba to talk with him about…
Beauty Blogosphere 3.23.12
Vibrating text-alert tattoos for all the "early adopters," Putin opposition leaders boycotting Proctor & Gamble, and the long tail of H-cup bras.
Middle-Class Occupations
The politics of middle class populism produce the peculiar social focus of both Occupy Wall Street and the #J14 housing protests in Israel.
TNI Vol. 2 Release Screening and Panel March 27
Celebrate the release of The New Inquiry Magazine, No. 2: Youth at The Kitchen on Tuesday, March 27 for a screening of one of the buried gems of late 60's youth-power exploitation cinema, "Wild in The Streets."
Love Bites
The story of the dentist McTeague's wooing of his patient, Trina, is one readers can sink their teeth into.
I Dream of Deenie
What does the "image" part of "body image" really mean?
Glossary
Arrested on numerous occasions: bank robbery, impersonating a doctor, impersonating an ambulance driver, armed bank robbery, insurance fraud, assaulting an officer, impersonating a cruise ship captain...
Jeanette Winterson @ McNally Jackson on Thursday
Thursday March 22 novelist and essayist Jeanette Winterson will be at McNally Jackson in SoHo to discuss her new memoir Why Be Happy When You…
TONIGHT: Sixties Pop Icons, Unseen
August, 1970. Jim Morrison in the Dade County Courthouse, Miami, Florida. Jim was on trial for indecent exposureat a 1969 concert in Miami. There was…
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