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

The luncheon was not altogether a success....

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 10, 2012

"She ate noisily, greedily, a little like a wild beast in a menagerie...."

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Concerning the Violent Peace-Police: An Open Letter to Chris Hedges

By David GraeberFebruary 9, 2012

I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was deeply involved in the early stages of planning Occupy in New York. I am also an anarchist who has participated in many Black Blocs. This is why

Essays & Reviews

Fail Worse

By Ned BeaumanFebruary 9, 2012

Beckett's "Fail better" is now experimental literature's equivalent of the famous Che Guevara photo: a successful brand with no particular owner

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The Beheld

Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part II)

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 9, 2012

I’ve had my chance to expound on glamour (which, of course, I did from my chaise longue with a Manhattan in hand while my protégé took dictation),…

Essays & Reviews

Who Can You Trust?

By Sarah HandelmanFebruary 8, 2012

In a post-digital world, the Named garment achieves something our social networks cannot. We may never meet the three-dimensional version of our complete online cohort. But Minnie has a name. Order her. She’ll arrive at your door. Touch her. Smell her. She’s real. She’s yours.

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Un(der)known Writers: Penelope Mortimer

By Jessica FerriFebruary 8, 2012

There is much to know about Penelope Mortimer. She was married to one man, but gave birth to two children from extramarital affairs with two other, separate men. While pregnant, she would leave her first husband for her second, John Mortimer. Their relationship was anything but sunny, and the details became excellent source material for

News

PostSecret "Live" Spring 2012

By TNIFebruary 8, 2012

The New Inquiry Magazine, No. 1 contributor, Frank Warren of PostSecret has posted the dates for his live tour. Stop by and say hello if…

Essays & Reviews

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

By Kirsty DootsonFebruary 8, 2012

Notes on animals and auteurism: The cat and dog cinema of Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir

The Beheld

Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part I)

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 8, 2012

Glamour is an illusion, and an allusion too. Glamour is a performance, a creation, a recipe, but one with give. Glamour is elegance minus restraint,…

The Austerity Kitchen

Plié ... Relevé ... Heel!

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 8, 2012

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely critters--at least as far as Mrs. Midnight's Animal Comedians were concerned.

Marginal Utility

Selflessness and self-absorption

By Rob HorningFebruary 7, 2012

The space in which we can experience ourselves just being ourselves is disappearing. Here's what an old book about 18th century French painting can tell us about this

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Our Contributors' Books

By TNIFebruary 7, 2012

Combined and Uneven Apocalypse - Evan Calder Williams The Reactionary Mind - Corey Robin Girl Parts - John Cusick Roman Letters - Evan Calder…

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Books by Our Contributors

By TNIFebruary 7, 2012

Zunguzungu

David Graeber's Debt: My First 5,000 Words

By Aaron BadyFebruary 6, 2012

If anything, the limitation of this big book is actually that it’s not big enough, that it gestures towards -- without fully including – so very much that is within the ken of its ambition. But the short version of this review, simply, is this: I can’t really picture a better book than this one

South/South

Simulacra Descending a Staircase

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviFebruary 6, 2012

In these dark and brooding times it is Kafkaesque tragicomedy that strikes the right note of collective mirth. The Iranian government recently staged an anniversary celebration of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's momentous return from exile in France. The cardboard reenactment of his arrival has been the subject of effusive internet mockery since photos from the state-affiliated

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.