Dry Bones Breathe
...and they collapse and die from hearing the music. Leak suggests the story is “signifying” on Norman Mailer’s argument in “The White Negro” about how the white hipster lives vicariously...
We Were Promised Hot Tubs
...point that a musician I already love will die than it is that I will find new musicians to get that attached to. Anyway, I wanted to write something about...
Lonely Highways in the Land of Jail
...Timothy McVeigh by the 1993 FBI-ATF siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, that he consoled himself by visiting various gun shows. Like the cult’s leader, David Koresh,...
Speaking in Memes
...Live by the meme and die by the meme. In any case, is this the new normal for massive cultural events? Traditional media narratives are still overwhelmingly dominant, but the...
The American Studies Association Goes to Politics
...of us are going to die, eventually—so it’s a thought we generally don’t entertain, however true we might know it to be. In this way, we’re all of us unknowing...
Super Position
...figures of authority can be trusted if they have first been chastened and endured terrible suffering.” Normal police let children die on bridges, but police who’ve been buried alive for...
Once Upon a Dream
...triumph to disprove the smoke-and-mirrors theory that Del Rey’s “Video Games” buzz was pure hype and Born to Die marked the official exhaustion of a one-trick persona. In her new...
Sunday Reading
...in that terrible place.” "I wasn’t pretending to be a trucker. I was pretending to be me.” "You end up missing your dogs.” "When the seas evaporate, the crops die,...
#mybodymyhome (iii)
...impossibility of empathy. Njau refuses the fantasy that unethical regimes can exist without distributing their toxicity. The novel’s protagonist, Tesa Koki Kenga, composes and teaches music at a high school....
Fucking Like a Housewife
From On Becoming Undone
Sunday Reading
...food." "Parker took the dog to an alley in Hawthorne, ran over it and left it to die." "I'm not worried anymore; give me some cocaine." “Essentially it's life support...
Simplicity, Voluntary or Otherwise
...things of this world as if assured that they will never die, and yet are in such a rush to snatch any that come within their reach, as if expecting...
Spirits in the Material World
...--From the Report on Spiritualism: Of the Committee of the London Dialectical Society (1873) "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any...
The Irrelevant and the Contemporary
...die. Found in the morning on the floor of a boat after being impaled in the chest by a swordfish while night fishing. Or fragment of my bloody shirt found...
Fan Fiction
...turn queer, kill each other, and, sometimes, die. A typical issue of the New Inquiry solicits critics who engage with their objects from above. With Fan Fiction, we’ve decided to...
Snake Plissken's Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
...always, decided to defer. Indefinitely, straight out to the fogged horizon and beyond, straight through my life and past my death. For I may die, but this quantity will not,...