Vol. 18 Editors' Note: Family Planning
...It has stayed with us as a popular bit of anti-abortionist propaganda, illuminating the supposedly depraved underpinnings of family planning. And yes, family planning was enlisted in quite a lot...
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...
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...
Sunday Reading
...the restroom" "Women are apparently still a bit too exotic for the intrepid men." "Santana told police that he bought the animal for $200 at a gas station." Jacob Remes:...
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...
Scam or Die
The New Inquiry editors discuss last year’s so-called “Summer of Scam” and its endless aftermath
Guest Post: Gone Swimmin'—African American Women and Hair
...a portrait artist and maybe a little bit of a wannabe writer currently residing in Cleveland, Ohio. Check out her art blog at Mary-Elizabeth.net. Olympic bronze medalist Lia Neal might...
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...
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...
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...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 17
...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...
Plantation Neoliberalism
...the Brazilian “gradually disappeared from my visual field” is just a bit rich. Writing in the clear light of an early morning, one in which subjects and objects have re-achieved...
The Job of Consent
The Joy of Consent: a Philosophy of Good Sex (October 2023) tests the limits of consent as a heuristic for "good sex," exposing the wide berth between pleasure and what is legible to the law.
Chaos Orders Us: A Letter From Paris
Why, all across the globe, does everything that serves to preserve the tradition of the oppressed also serve to oppress COVID-19?