Kids in the Haul
...lady? I’m the Marcia-fucking-Brady of the Upper East Side, and sometimes I want to kill myself.” II. About that Starter Mansion Life: Halfway through the 2012 documentary, The Queen of...
A Guy Named Frank
...there’s a clear potential for monopolization. The enterprising, shirtless, teenaged stoner dealer only a text away could disappear entirely. And what then will happen to the culture of weed smoking,...
Vol. 26 Editors' Note: Consent
...realize you, the player, have to finish the job. To do the verb to kill. Technically it’s the only time the game leaves you no recourse but to do it,...
Bodies of Water
...its complicity in the dictatorship and the disappearances, including campaigns of misinformation in presenting assassinations as suicides or apolitical crimes. In 1976, the body of Marta Ugarte, a teacher and...
Waking Up in Trump’s America, Part 2
...In the back of my mind, I keep thinking about the things I've personally committed my life to, the choice I've made to pursue research, scholarship, and teaching on and...
Sunday Reading
...Life in Kerala, India (1937) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina "Like numerous other aspects of modernity, uniforms first penetrated Turkish culture through the military" Criminality and Colonial...
Killing the Angel in the House
...Time ever slow. Slower than molasses, slower than raw honey: turbinated sugar-time. Devoid of speed, life moved at the pace of number of books devoured, Japanese cartoon series and American...
Politics of Contempt
...I want to focus on the positive, because otherwise I would collapse. For her children, there are no baby steps. They get the same quality of teaching, the same educational...
Everything Fantastic is Credible: “Bombay’s Republic,” week one
...not only kill them but you also will happily cook them for supper. The Japanese, as you very well know, are trained to fight without fear of death. They don’t...
Announcing Ayesha Siddiqi
...of TNI Magazine featuring Ayesha's work: [r]Click the image or PDF link to download[/r] Featuring "Bikini Kill" by Ayesha Siddiqi Featuring "Prescription Strike" by Ayesha Siddiqi Featuring "Can the White...
Sunday Reading
...Don't Do Kwaanza "Serial" as an Asian-American Story Kill the Future The Mouse That Roared: The Democratic Movement in Hong Kong Communism Goes Cute: The Japanese Communist Party’s new kawaii...
The New Inquiry Vol. 55: Testing
...absent from teachers who imposed punishments driving her to contemplate suicide “more days than not.” Cheating’s “tiny filament of comradeship” was a lifeline. Her experience is far from abnormal: one...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...I got” kinda way. I always say isms are systemic abuse culture and this is basically a prime example given this is the kind of uncomfortable situation you get when...
This is 40?
...to say about the appropriation of black culture by white youth before pulling back and solving its narrative riddle with gangland fantasia. He gives us a quartet of non-black Kentucky...
Preferential Immunity
...first reaction upon hearing the Ebola news was casual curiosity. It was only upon a doctor friend impressing Ebola’s “it will kill you” nature upon me did I even consider...
Masters of Suspicion
...countries like Mexico or Colombia, or, for that matter, of the persistence of the revolutionary socialist government in Cuba. When militants of the Mexican Ejercito Popular Revolucionario kill soldiers and...