Gay Life Against Marriage
...of their love, have died in vain; that we “of a better future” redeem him and prove him correct when he writes “it doesn’t matter when I die, for I...
Stories of Our Lives: Memories
...crazy things happen there. I want to go and be a stripper there. I don’t want to be a housewife or whatever, I want to continue sex-working until I die....
Editors’ Note, Vol. 64: Fan Fiction
Fan fiction is and always has been an act of care, which is to say, a genuine kind of criticism.
Fully Operational
...IBM tanked in the early ’90s but didn’t die; it went on more quietly. Same with Jeff Koons; same with speculative black office buildings made of mirrored glass. All that’s...
Pandemic
...“in this together,” the pandemic did not produce the communal bonds that collective trauma typically yields. Instead, it further exposed and intensified “disparities,” which were often described––by public health officials,...
Open Office Plan
In an office tower belonging to a new-media company in lower Manhattan, employees live, sleep, advertise products, and occasionally write content, together. And they aren't allowed to leave.
Sunday Reading
...on the manuscript as a medium worthy of study and respect.” 'Turkified': Why I Can Never Be a Proper German How Black Girls Die in America “Hart Island, the United...
Not this. More that!
...away. Because otherwise I’ll die of grief. To extend oneself into the world, to “give away,” to be generous, to generate pleasantness as a way to live with grief. Not...
The Havoc of Less
Huey Newton’s theory of intercommunalism reminds us not to lose sight of the everyday over the spectacular in contemporary discourses of crisis
Baghdad, Utopia
...to die. Perhaps all writing about the dead carries with it the danger of aestheticizing real suffering and real struggle. But writing Jawad’s life is a way of negotiating and...
The Flies That Bind
...terrible whispering feet silenced, anchored in glue, there to die and loll and rustle with breezes, macabre chitinous decor. A display of corpses in spiral vortex, a strip of wallpaper...
Sunday Reading
...York The particular, social torture of disappearances Methodological nationalism "An inspiration to those who are completely willing to cast aside their humanity and work their way up the corporate ladder"...
Drama for Cannibals
...Shakespeare Behind Bars. This American Life devoted a whole acoustic-guitar-scored episode to a prison production of Hamlet’s Act V. In Italy, Caesar Must Die, the newest film from Paolo and...
Black Arts Boomerang
...new “Wizard of Watts” Adult Swim cartoon, and Kendrick Lamar’s “Untitled Track” Colbert performance have directly addressed our racial justice struggles. Lamar’s lyric, "we don’t die, we multiply!", was repeated...
Humid, All Too Humid
...effort? Are we prepared for 150,000,000 to die in Bangladesh when we let the water run a moment too long? Ah, it will be a tragedy, but at least the...
Bad News
...corporate media’s ideological inertia. Previous works, such as I Feel Your Pain (2011) and The Armory Show Focus Group (2013), engagingly splice together the romantic comedy and the political interview,...