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

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?

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Vol. 75 | September 2021

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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

Features

Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian

By Hil MalatinoAugust 31, 2020

For María Lugones

Features

Woman With a Weapon-Camera

By Yasmina PriceAugust 27, 2020

On the work of Sarah Maldoror

The Epic Present

First as Farce, Then as Tragedy

By Aditya BahlAugust 25, 2020

Hindu nationalism is the modality in which the crisis of postcolonial capitalism is lived.

Shines Like Gold

Dynamics of intentional and unintentional interpersonal coordination

By imp kerrAugust 24, 2020

Lego piece falls out of New Zealand boy's nose after being stuck for two years

Essays & Reviews

The Contagious Assembly

By Alex BenhamAugust 24, 2020

A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order

Shines Like Gold

The second wave began in the second half of August

By imp kerrAugust 16, 2020

The most powerful predictors of relationship quality are the characteristics of the relationship itself — the life dynamic you build with your person

The Austerity Kitchen

Lunch on the Grass

By Christine BaumgarthuberAugust 4, 2020

Much of what made life pleasurable is now gone. We must seek out what remains.

The Austerity Kitchen

Bitter Buttons and Other Backyard Weeds

By Christine BaumgarthuberJuly 28, 2020

Tansy is a lovely plant in its way — enough, anyway, to tempt me to take some of it home. But then I remind myself of its checkered past.

Essays & Reviews

Life During Wartime

By Ju-Hyun ParkJuly 27, 2020

Every Korean person I know who has died has died during the Korean War

Essays & Reviews

Abolition is Not a Suburb

By Tamara K. NopperJuly 16, 2020

Affluent white havens are not models of accountability

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.