Fist to Brain
...and social conventions, and for Levinas it is therefore the basis for all ethics. He believes that the face, in its obvious vulnerability, says: you shall not kill. Boxing violates...
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...
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...
Sunday Reading
...employ as many private security guards as high school teachers." Nice unions finish last "[P]ower doesn’t come from friendly campaigns and negotiating with management." The testing ground for the new...
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...
Extremists in The Mainstream
...this reason, some readers might not see Goliath as being focused on the mainstream, and I even found myself thinking on occasion: “Israelis don’t always come off as this rabid.”...
System Failures
...of the unprecedented connection which allows soldiers based in the United States to survey, track, and kill targets in countries on the other side of the planet, no exchange seems...
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 Laughing Indian
...“Ayyyyyy,” with the explanation, “another Indian idiom.” He is translating Indians for white people, making them not only more readable but more laughable. Send your thoughts to [email protected] Political Indians,...
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
...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....
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...