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.

Essays & Reviews

Army of Un

By M. Francis WolffFebruary 24, 2012

Adam Johnson's latest novel, The Orphan Master's Son, is one of those rare works of high ambition that follows through on all of its promises. Set in the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea, it examines both the Orwellian horrors of life in the DPRK and the voyeurism of Western media.

The Austerity Kitchen

Reindeer Game

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 24, 2012

In the harsh arctic region Laplanders inhabit, joy, like summer, is fleeting.

The Beheld

Beauty Blogosphere: 2.24.12

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 24, 2012

Beauty news of the week: the sale of the Mary Kay mansion, Downton Abbey perfume, Shaq giving a pedicure, and more.

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South/South

Semeiotic Dubai: Peirce and Pop Architecture

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviFebruary 23, 2012

'Gold adorned buildings, souks laden with gold jewellery that looks too heavy to wear, gold ATM machines and shopping malls so big you can feel the curvature of the earth...'

Shines Like Gold

It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago

By imp kerrFebruary 23, 2012

In the late 90s, the fortune dispatched gritty Chiquita in the MPD to institute and insufflate and propagate █████.

Essays & Reviews

Fuck Forever and Never Die

By Michael ThomsenFebruary 23, 2012

The closest you can get to sex in Skyrim is marriage.

Uncategorized

The Fame Game

By The New InquiryFebruary 22, 2012

Frank Warren of PostSecret and Hannah Hart of My Drunk Kitchen discuss the instability of sudden Internet celebrity.

The Austerity Kitchen

Night Moves

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 22, 2012

There was a time when late-night wakefulness wasn't something to be dreaded but welcomed. Centuries ago, sleepers woke with pleasure, even eagerness. Between "first" and "second" sleep, so called, men, women and children stirred to enjoy activities domestic and romantic, spiritual and intellectual.

The Beheld

Thoughts on a Word: Nappy

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 22, 2012

Not everyone can say "nappy" and come away unscathed. Say it to, or even just near, the wrong person and it might just blow up in your face.

Marginal Utility

Northanger Abbey and antisocial pleasure

By Rob HorningFebruary 21, 2012

Northanger Abbey wants to condemn consumerism and champion the right kind of novel reading, but it can find no stable premises for the distinction

Uncategorized

Portrait of the Artist as a Rookie Cop

By If You Can Read This You're LyingFebruary 21, 2012

The photographs of Antonio Bolfo, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and former NYPD patrolman who took artistic photographs while on the job, humanize both officers and civilians. So says the The New York Times. But is this true? And if it is, does it matter?

Essays & Reviews

Look What You Did, You Little Jerk

By Mary Elizabeth BorkowskiFebruary 21, 2012

Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and culture's problem with bad mothers

The Beheld

Best in Show

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 21, 2012

I don’t particularly like dogs, at least not as a species. Some of them are perfectly lovely creatures I’m happy to share space with on…

Zunguzungu

The Earnestness of Being Grantham: Anglophonia and Marital Inaction

By Aaron BadyFebruary 20, 2012

Everyone who writes about Downton Abbey accepts the premise that the show is a narrative of progress, the fin de siècle story of The Traditional that is about to be (and then is) buffeted by The Onrush of Modernity. It’s to the show’s credit that this is completely wrong.

Essays & Reviews

X Marks the Spot: Occupy’s Architecture

By James GrahamFebruary 20, 2012

Before it was Zuccotti Park, it was Liberty Plaza Park. The old name reflected the realities of Manhattan real estate, binding the park by association to the building that stands just north of it: One Liberty Plaza, a 54-story tower that necessitated the park’s very existence. The Park formerly known as Liberty Plaza, surfaced in

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.