Beauty Backfire
...off completely, thankfully—that is, thankfully for my “ick” threshold, not simply for vanity, as I wound up accessorizing my manicure with a waterproof Band-Aid—but it was troublesome for days, and...
The Carceral State
...are prisons gender segregated, but quotidian practice inside mandates the group fantasy of gender normativity. This is a bit of a different argument than suggesting that we only pay attention...
Scam or Die
The New Inquiry editors discuss last year’s so-called “Summer of Scam” and its endless aftermath
Dans le Rouge
...Some students are beginning to reason, quite understandably, that if they're going to be arrested anyway, they may as well be a bit more ambitious. It’s just as easy, after...
Bodies of Water
...left side of his skull, the bit behind the ear with a bullet mark… a few teeth and bits of bones and a foot. When a foot, or a piece...
Migratory Words
...to connect with people. In Evaporating Borders, that last poem for me is basically what makes the film. Can you talk a little bit about the poem? My translator Zahra...
Live Through This
...McElroy points out, “there can be as many motives for rape as there are for murder and other violent crimes ... Rape is every bit as complex.” Insisting that no...
American Sajaegi
...the efforts of passionate volunteers to improve their favorite artists’ chart position and another, different type of campaign that tends to be waged in secret by “marketing companies” working at...
Dinner with Lydia Maria Child
...Ticknor. Exercise of his “influence in the literary and fashionable world” did cause sales of her “unfortunate book” to pick up, and she found herself “a little wee bit of...
The Selfless Man
...see him embody our slogans emerges as much from empathy and communal understanding as it does from reverence. There is a little bit of Jacob in all of us. It...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 16
...asking Mr. Gorbachev to put back that wall. They could at least have taken it down slower or even tried dressing it up a bit: Hang some art, give it...
We Can Do It!: Rosie the Swiffer
...With No Name you're carrying? In other words: Rosie the Riveter was a bit of propaganda created to refashion the idea of conventional femininity. Which is exactly how Procter...
The Slopes of Davos
...against the planet’s true masters of improvisation. But the assignment of blame gets a bit confusing. “Interestingly, respondents to the Global Risks Perception Survey connected antibiotic-resistant bacteria to failure of...
Thinking bad
...makes reading the book feel very much like a return to a 1990s zeitgeist. This jars a bit with the Internet-driven content he's dealing with. The approach feels out of...
Everything resembles the truth
...a Stereohell online information and service system. To browse SRNET or join, set your modem to 22 data bits, 1 stop bit and...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.29.12
...products, but even I'm skeptical of Hello Kitty collagen marshmallows. A girl thing: In an effort to dispel notions about women in science, the European Commission put out a music...