Special Victims
...of the defilement, rehabilitation, and revenge that high-grossing movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, and Gone have since employed. Recent films like Miss Bala and Martha...
On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
All Eyez on Not-Me
...Kill, and Nirvana. It’s surprising that such a notoriously skeptical generation seems to have embraced (or at least not dismissed outright) Holopac. As a culture we are seemingly obsessed with...
The Killing Class
...more one reaches toward a higher definitional value. The police are defined by the power to kill with impunity, period. The police are the killing class. And it is in...
World Hair Cup 2014 Updates
...WorldHairCup.com. So given that 2014 marks the inaugural World Hair Cup, it's understandable that the Fédération Internationale de Hair Association (FIHA) ran into some unexpected issues during group stage. (Hey,...
The Science and Spectacle of the Swarm
How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social
The Sigil Begins
...houses and writing, speaking, or engaging there with a cohort of other squatters until whatever it is we're doing is identified and stamped out or commercialized. Or until a skillful...
Women Radiobiologists and 'Standard Man'
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Rhythms of Change: The Victorian Science Poems of May Kendall
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Blogging the Caine, 2013
...essay on the Monday of each week, and doing a week-in-review post on Saturday, both at the New Inquiry. If you’d like to participate, email me at [email protected] or join...
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...oldschool social-networking site Makeoutclub.com, which had the virtue of not being explicitly dating-oriented. On that site, sexual tension was high because ambiguity lived: Other people’s intentions were never foreordained. Show...
Evan Calder Williams and Maryam Monalisa Gharavi: The Letters Reading
...month at one of our favorite bookstores, Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, you can listen to the full audio here: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2012/12/ECWandMMLG-Read-letters.mp3|titles=ECWandMMLG-Read-letters] Recording courtesy of Alessandra Guarino and Koshy Daniel (@Sababarbathioth)...
The Ways We Don’t Talk About Wealth
...one or two. Several have salaries listed on Forbes.com, and a handful have told me what they make. (Admittedly, there are considerations encouraging them to tamper with that figure, in...
Inessential No. 3
Inessential No. 1 and No. 2 debuted as an installation in "Between the Walls" at Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in...
Asghar Farhadi: Life and Cinema with author Tina Hassannia @ Videology (12/14)
...current state of Iranian cinema with Godfrey Cheshire (RogerEbert.com), one of the first critics to bring Iranian cinema to the attention of Western audiences in the 1990s. A book signing...
Dr. Jane C. Wright and the Making of Modern Oncology
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....