TNI Hosts: Conservative Thought Salon
...event will take place in Brooklyn, NY; anyone in the area is welcome to attend. Please contact us at [email protected] for more information. Why conservatism? Because conservatism is a serious...
Black Friday
...Alibaba.com, sometimes known as "the Chinese eBay", connects shoppers looking to purchase commodities in bulk directly with manufacturers from across the world. The site encompasses more or less...
Conspicuous Consumption
...their weakness for flesh. If we never plan to return to veganism, Exvegans.com requested that we please kill ourselves. In one respect, there was something for ex-vegans to like about...
The Science of What Makes Pain So Personal
...to communicate to those on the outside. For decades, scientists hypothesized the physical sensation was closely tied to gender, personal willpower, and ethnic or racial background. But for neurologist Asenath...
(Pro)Creating Science: The Parenting Metaphor, Gender, and Scientific Memory
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Secret Catalan Poem
...seems more accurate: "From late Middle English, in the sense 'announce publicly,' from Latin divulgare, from di- 'widely' + vulgare "publish, from vulgus 'common people.'" Thanks to Ethel and César...
No, You're Already Pretty
...Thanks to everyone who entered the Already Pretty giveaway! I went numerically-chronologically, starting with the-beheld.com, then e-mail entries from readers understandably frustrated by the Blogger comment system, then...
Social media and sensibility
...from eroticized resistance and intimate surveillance. Mr. B learns the erotic appeal of using his power to elicit Pamela's interiority, to stimulate it and draw it out, and this proves...
Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome Charyn
...Jerome Charyn and Michael Seidenberg in conversation at Brazenhead Books. Introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Part 1: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/03/CharynMichaelFinalpt1.mp3|titles=Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome Charyn Part 1] Part 2: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/03/JandMfullpt2_1-2.mp3|titles=Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome...
Alphabet of an Unknown City (N-Z)
...Gabbriellini) before ever setting eyes on him. The room darkens and quiets around her as she takes her first bite of Antonio’s food. https://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2018/04/I-Am-Love-2009-The-Lunch.mp4 picnic Stink bugs cling noiselessly in...
Alphabet of an Unknown City (A-M)
...now. What can a body mean if it is not framed by sex and power? As one of his only canonical references Bel lists Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes...
The Accidental Audience
...that Graham’s sculpture has traveled marks the power of the literal-minded accidental audience as a connector and creator of image meanings. You can already hear the sound of the accidental...
City Hunger
...passivity, signs and tears, nor a domineering will to power would do. She emphasized that love is a kind of active feminine making, a compassion that lets things be, beyond...
Blogging the Caine Prize 2012
...Mary Watson; 2005: SA Afolabi; 2004: Brian Chikwava; 2003: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor; 2002: Binyavanga Wainaina; 2001: Helon Habila; 2000: Leila Aboulela If you look at the list of writers who...
How to Win Tinder
...such as Match.com or eHarmony require. There is no “matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match.” You are your own matchmaker. And because Tinder is so streamlined and visual it can...
The Cost of Disclosure: On Being a Woman with a Disability in Geophysics
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....