Room 406
...brother, go to Tadmor Prison with orders to kill every prisoner, whether they are connected to the Muslim Brotherhood or not. The commandos arrive at dawn. The prisoners are in...
Un(der)seen Cinema: The Decline of Western Civilization
...fucking life is a wreck / we're desperate / get used to it it's kiss or kill / coca-cola and a motorola kitchen / nauga-hyde and a tie-dye t-shirt /...
Uwe Boll's Weaponized Cinema
...been cheating on her with a number of girls. The creative-writing teacher, frustrated at his inability to write a novel, is confronted by the principal for humiliating students, giving them...
Assets
...culture war wins, targets had already been locked. We’ve reached the expiration date on the neoliberalism and austerity that Western democracies long relied upon to maintain a mask of civility...
Daddy
...waits against the hateful desire to despise a black father in a world designed to kill him. Under Reaganite conservatism, the 80s were peak dad, inspiring our cover–the spirit of...
Miéville's Anticlimaxes
...an event remembered as the “godsquabble.” These faithful bureaucrats have been keeping records of the costs of the railsea, and nearly kill Sham when he reveals that he hasn't come...
Diner Forty Niner
...that Bruff contemplated, they did commit other crimes, jumping claims, stealing crops, looting homes, ransacking farms, destroying roads, and killing livestock when it suited them. Wherever they went they left...
Just Another Princess Movie
...it’s not predictable, it’s not Just Another Princess Movie, and it’s not — my God! — lacking for deeper layers. Send your feedback and responses to [email protected]. Insofar as Pixar...
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....
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...
Sarah Leonard Speaks at Occupy the Page
...the Indypendent, Sarah Leonard of DISSENT and The New Inquiry, and Nathan Schneider of Waging Nonviolence and occupywriters.com . Theodore Kerr of 12th StreetJournal, moderates. 12th Street is the award-winning...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.25.12
...it's being treated as something with potential instead of something already available. The singularity just may be cosmetized. Bad girls go everywhere: xoJane.com beauty editor Cat Marnell in a Vice...
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...
Resisting The Chilling Effect
...disagreed. This isn’t to say that the list was a raging hotbed of disputes and denunciations — Politico’s Walter Shapiro compared it to “cafeteria chatter.” Journolist, after all, was an...
Desiring Machines
...An attraction-machine now takes the place, or may take the place, of a repulsion-machine: a miraculating-machine succeeding the paranoiac machine. — Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus "Desiring Machines": [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/02/05-Desiring-Machines-EDIT2.mp3|titles=Desiring Machines]...
The Chosen People
The authors of The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election, Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz, in conversation with TNI. Their book addresses the...