Nightmares of 1965
...a motorcycle, corpse blood and bone in the headlights. The arbor’s darkness grows wild, multiplies, and somehow the night reaches over into my room, personified as a dark cloud over...
Sunday Reading
...campus: NYU in Asia How Washington could make college tuition free without spending a penny more on education Abolish the SAT The professor, the bikini model, and the suitcase full...
Sunday Reading
...Barbados.” Gerhard Richter Is A Famous Painter Of Expensive Paintings The Remote Control as Subversive Technology The Facebook Fallacy Each Age Gets the Sherlock Holmes it Deserves Cloud Communities and...
Sunday Reading
...know the name that will be attached to this particular season” Migrant Workers and the US Military in the Middle East How to See Infrastructure: A Guide for Seven Billion...
Political Currency
...by a vast public infrastructure Coins made out of precious metal, the dominant form of currency until the eighteenth century, serve as a touchstone for Desan’s theory. Chartalists, for whom...
Lost in the Supermarket
...All this global capitalist food infrastructure, and still nothing to eat. A review of Alexandra Kleeman's novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine In the 1957 short...
Commuter Riots
...stretch, so relocating two professional sports clubs to the outskirts staved off gentrification for decades in Kansas City’s historic downtown Jazz District. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is now located...
The Origins of American Women’s Exercise
...sex. This attitude persisted into the early twentieth century, when professional physical education training programs for women emerged. As P.E. departments were established in schools, a new cohort of professional...
Lockdown
...interests” (of the wealthy) while India’s already-moribund public health infrastructure inches towards total obliteration. The Hindu nationalism and orthodox jingoism of the BJP do not undermine the “true spirit” of...
A Union of Poets
An interview with organizers of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers, the Resist Retail Nihilism conference, and the Worker Writers School
Seeing Stars
...and professional artists glorifies stars whose celebrity is infused with public shame. Their private pain becomes the dark, paradoxical basis of fandom. The artists featured here approach their subjects as...
Plants, Domesticity, and the Female Poisoner
...only the latest in a stereotype-rich line of women botanists and poisoners from mythology, detective stories, comics, and science fiction. Modern stories, including comics, are slowly letting women scientists be...
The Ways We Don’t Talk About Wealth
...female model to say, “I’m beautiful” than it is for a professional male athlete to say, “I’m the best in the game.” But nothing is more offensive than a woman...
Shoot Hip or Die
...need expensive hardware to crash photography’s beauty party. This is the final stage of a revolution, the democratization of what used to be professional photography, and its hippest, most boring...
M and A
...splotch of paint in a pool.  ACTOR: (Talking to the paint.) I’m just searching for a very important piece of information that might be the clue to everything. Something...
Stalker/Zona
...that he’s free, for he is an evangelical believer in the miraculous properties of the Zone. Once inside, they travel toward the Room, a place that is said to cause...