Already Pretty Giveaway
...Sally will be giving away a signed copy of Already Pretty to a reader of The Beheld chosen at random from all comments on this post (whether at the-beheld.com, The...
Being Boys
Make masculinity and its traces quake at the impending danger creeping up on it
Coming & Crying
...An interesting project to be aware of: Coming & Crying. Coming & Crying is an effort by Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O’Connell to publish a new book...
TNI Barter Rules
...barter: Tweet at our account (@newinquiry) and/or with the hashtag #TNIBarter, post on the barter thread on our Facebook page, or email [email protected] with your offer. We'll close on the...
Eminent Domain
...the bottom to provide the same thing. Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — domain suffixes like .com, .net, or .org — are available to anyone. The Internet has routinely been described...
Black Friday, Or the Circulation of Commodities
...Alibaba.com, sometimes known as "the Chinese eBay," connects shoppers looking to purchase commodities in bulk directly with manufacturers from across the world. The site encompasses more or less every...
You Drank Some Darkness
...http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2014/09/Teju-Cole-You-Drank-Some-Darkness.mp3 Stand here and look out at the steady fact of the sea. Like a closed door, it gives you little. Behind you is the museum, and...
Charity Assets
...founder and chairman of eBay, has a personal wealth estimated at $8.5 billion, and has said that he is prepared to put $250 million into the project “for starters.” Compare...
IVAN: The Reconstruction of Narcissism
...http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2014/02/Ivan-Trailer-.mp4 IVAN: The Reconstruction of Narcissism, a debut composition by POWERHOUSE, explores the notion of using architecture and design as a vehicle for self-transformation by holding the design...
Women Scribes: The Technologists of the Middle Ages
...written by a woman in Western literature; Hildegard of Bingen (12th century), who innovated with musical composition; and Christine de Pizan (14th-15th century), a prolific late medieval author. They are...
Speaking in Tongues
...slow Internet, I logged into chat rooms under names like Amber and Vanessa, pretending I was 18 and blonde and a model-slash-actress. There, with a little help from Literotica.com, I...
Beauty Blogosphere 9.14.12
...consumer trends for 2012, as per trendwatching.com. We shoulda seen this coming, really. Hostess with the leastest: For the season premiere of The Talk, cohosts and guests went makeup-free. I'm...
Where in the world is…Cathy Carlston?
...Carlston propelled Carmen’s popularity through her focus on educational outreach for Brøderbund. At a time when educators (and parents) searched for uses for personal computers, Cathy convinced school teachers that...
About TNI Magazine
...Now and forever, content on thenewinquiry.com will be available, online for free to all. The New Inquiry has no traffic-seeking advertisers, no string-pulling benefactors, and no paywall. Instead, we...
Serf Boards
...woman who was using the service as her primary source of income. She chose to remain anonymous but said her days start by checking “TaskRabbit, Craigslist, and Voices.com for gigs.”...
Sunday Reading: November 26, 2023
...these short articles, and they will be published here within the newsletter and at the Sunday Reading blog. Please pitch us with drafts attached at [email protected]. That is also the...