The New Inquiry

Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation

By Katherine McKittrickMay 10, 2022

Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine Mckittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.

Shines Like Gold

Can dropping a little data change conclusions?

By imp kerrJanuary 6, 2021

How much is an hour of your free time worth? $19.

Lines of Revolt

Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection

By Sabu Kohso and LiaisonsDecember 14, 2020

A Letter From Sabu Kohso

Lines of Revolt

Lockdown

By LiaisonsDecember 11, 2020

A Letter From Kolkata

Latest Issue

Pandemic

Vol. 75 | September 2021

Download this issue

Shines Like Gold

Un cocktail, des Cocteau

By imp kerrDecember 7, 2020

eBay believed that for every dollar they’re spending, they’re getting 50 cents of net profits. And what we showed is that on average, they’re losing more than 60 cents on every dollar.

Lines of Revolt

Shaheen Bagh

By LiaisonsDecember 4, 2020

A Letter From Kolkata

Shines Like Gold

“A STUDENT IN 6 MINUTES HAD 776 HEAD AND EYE MOVEMENTS”

By imp kerrNovember 19, 2020

Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs

Features

Whose Streets?

By Alexia GarciaNovember 13, 2020

An interview with Malick Gueye on anti-racist organizing with undocumented street vendors in pandemic-lockdown Spain

Shines Like Gold

Losing nothing is better than gaining nothing

By imp kerrNovember 10, 2020

Man shot in Russia in argument over Kant

Shines Like Gold

‘Smoking doesn’t kill.’ –Mike Pence

By imp kerrOctober 31, 2020

Research says farts can be released through your breath if you hold them in

Shines Like Gold

‘The sea has neither meaning nor pity.’ –Chekhov

By imp kerrOctober 31, 2020

Balling out of control

Shines Like Gold

An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang

By imp kerrOctober 13, 2020

Parrots removed from UK wildlife park after they started swearing at customers

The Epic Present

Episode One: All The Factory’s A Stage

By Aditya BahlOctober 5, 2020

But it was not capitalism alone that determined the workers’ social life both in the factory and the colony.

Shines Like Gold

The Art of the One-Word Poem

By imp kerrSeptember 20, 2020

When we lose weight, where does it go?

Lines of Revolt

The Revolution Post-Explosion

By LiaisonsSeptember 11, 2020

A Letter From Beirut

Lines of Revolt

Warning

By LiaisonsSeptember 9, 2020

A Letter From Minneapolis

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 Liz KinnamonJune 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.