Black Arts Boomerang
...can re-construe police brutality as "justifiable accidents", while community defense efforts are distortedly framed as resisting arrest and incitement to riot. Jordan’s question—how to settle scores, how to push the...
Preservation Society
...even bottled my own wine, but I had yet to pickle or preserve. Such kitchen arts had always seemed unduly complicated -- all paraffin, pressure cookers, and mason jars. A...
Humid, All Too Humid
...Earthquakes in Japan, Thailand, Chile, Pakistan, Haiti, etc. were the result of global warming? Only pseudoscientists have answers, which are about as compelling as religious fanaticism. And those condemned Bangladeshis,...
A Sensor, Darkly
Bryant, who was named the 2015 Whistleblower of the Year by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, is an air force veteran. His memoir originally appeared in Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, which will be published next month by Duke University Press. The essay collection was edited by Lisa Parks and
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...
Short Circuit
...(via Boston, Chicago, and Memphis) a bit over a decade ago, but Weintraub’s cinema is an altogether more sophisticated thing visually, playing on The New Talkies tired theme of youthful...
Requiem for My Potential Hotness [Guest Post]
...my crush’s girlfriend wore. I compulsively plucked my eyebrows until they were gone. But like the slim person who looks back at old photos and thinks, I can’t believe I...
Beyond Avant-Garde
...bother to look at. And some commentators might be inclined to regard early adopters of social-media apps as avant-garde consumers, seizing on new possibilities for gratification, evasion, and status distinction....
Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one
Namaste Inc.
...of Indian identity. To the support center’s customers, authenticity is, well, a bit too Indian. Yet too Indian is how many Indians themselves may come to feel in certain circumstances....
Beautiful Weapons
...mechanical zones followed by scavenging a hideous trashscape for spare parts to repair my broken Hitachi and cum my brains out. I’ve made a game about communicating nonverbally with alien...
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...
Sunday Reading
...been closed." "The next morning my aunt called a doctor. A bit pointless, I thought, I will kill myself soon." "Putting on an awkward rhinoceros horn is more comfortable than...
Scam or Die
The New Inquiry editors discuss last year’s so-called “Summer of Scam” and its endless aftermath
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 21
...It doesn’t always help to be intelligible I have a dream of all people living out the end times squeezing every little bit of joy out of every...
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...