On Quitting
Most often when I talk about building a life, I have meant something closer to saying that I cannot imagine—or desire—a life here.
Our Nukes, Ourselves
Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town
Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one
Canceled Message (Part Three)
How to erase yourself (almost) completely
Women’s Work in Natural History Museums
By Jenna Tonn
Crafting Quantum Theory: Margrethe Bohr and the Labor of Theoretical Physics
By Megan Shields Formato
Yellow Fever
Desire is something that’s irrational, and often delusional.
Matchmaking
A good online-dating profile strategy, like a strong brand, turns a suspect into a prospect, and a prospect into a buyer
“the work”
What is "the work"?
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
The Stifling Air of Rigid Radicalism
Can radical politics harbor a deadening conservatism?
Routine Repairs & Earth & Dust
This is that old N.Y. dread—the frenetic running, the bleak refrigerator contents, no TIME for deep thinking or seeing friends, et. etc.—& that dread hasn’t died down yet.
The Context of Intellectual Friendship
An interview with David Scott about his book Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity
Editors’ Note, Vol. 67: Chemistry
We must name the monsters within, and claim the monstrosities we have had a hand in creating.
Consent: It’s Not Sexy
When we talk about rape as a culture, there’s a lot we don’t know how to say. Katie J. M. Baker, Victoria Campbell, Ragna Rök Jóns, Doreen St. Félix, Brenton Stokes, and Sarah Nicole Prickett discuss. Originally published April 29, 2015, in Adult. Re-presented here with a new introduction by Ana Cecilia Alvarez.
Privacy for Whom?
Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer