Is Entourage Sorry?
...The female version of this bodily apparatus is no less sleek, no less sterile and, no less empty. “Guys like you” was the show’s premise, and its success has demonstrated...
Superman/Everyman
...far more often read than any other English version. Kaufmann’s book on Nietzsche, his introductions, and his footnotes still exert far more control over Americans’ readings of Nietzsche than anyone...
Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim
In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim uses primary documents to reveal the true costs of American art and the instutions built in its name.
Buffalo Skulls
...diversity threaten the possibility of living a collective life as white people in America? In David Lane’s “White Genocide Manifesto,” for example—a bastardized version of Lothrop Stoddard’s 1920 The Rising...
Objets Trouvés or I like Looking in New York
...nothing, displayed at the window of Icy Images in Brooklyn. Another version on the same theme on the Lower East Side. I found some toys still wrapped in their original...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...just don’t like me as much as I thought.” It’s not that his small dick disqualifies him from masculinity but his version of masculinity is clearly one where he just...
Nightmares of 1965
...1993, I am a fourth-grade schoolgirl in Jakarta. Skinny in a uniform, sulkily mabuduik some of the time, a living version of my mother frozen in that photograph from 28...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 21
...a slightly altered version that wants you to be happy. You just have to trust it. Gistory is and always will be there for you; it has your back. It’s...
"This is when things got weird. And ugly."
...am ten years older than Suey Park, and, like her, I grew up in a suburban Korean household" positions the author as a reasonable version of her; one who is...
A Black Jack
...the status quo of the faux-po mediaverse by offering a version of Black masculinity that harkens back to depictions quite common during the Carter administration, but rarely seen since. Capt....
Death by Association
Calling on “black cyberpunk,” Roy Christopher’s book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future bestows the genre with a ghostly pallor, risking its political potential
Desecration Hardware, 2 (The Strand Antiqued Mirror Collection)
...perhaps just a comment, that it would be great to have a version that went ever smaller, like those dolls of which the Russians are so fond. Mice also deserve...
The Paper Chase
...reinvention of money requires a rethinking of what that tool is and should accomplish. A more secretive version of the money we already have isn’t going to cut it....
Nerd Crushed: Where Are the Average-Looking Female "Sex Symbols"?
...it comes to our culture—or hell, just Twitter—christening an utterly average-looking woman a sex symbol of any sort, we shy away from the possibility. Basically, this is a version of...
Emotional Work and Cultural Capital à Deux
...through social media—women’s longstanding expertise in presentation becomes a form of capital for the couple. Just as the stereotypical “trophy wife” boosts her husband’s social capital, the more plebian version—say,...
Novel History
The imagined “lost confessions” of an infamous 18th century English thief fucks with the demand on trans people to produce themselves as case histories, in order to illuminate something new about the present