Sex in Public
...college boyfriend, and then returned to writing with a popular and sometimes controversial dating column for The New York Post, where she worked until moving to website xoJane.com this fall....
Visitors
...form of "Visitors," a 37-minute mix. [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2012/10/visitors.mp3|titles=visitors] The artists describe it like this: This mix is titled Visitors. It was inspired and is the byproduct of the innovators and musicians...
Greetings From the Internet
...if you're interested in my back content, feel free to browse a year's worth of posts at the-beheld.com. I'm terrifically excited to be blogging here in addition to maintaining my...
We're Celebrating 50 Issues and You're Invited
...something that manages to include all of our issue titles and you could win an exclusive TNI tote bag and a free subscription. Submit your entry to [email protected] with the...
Wall, Ground, Air
...wall and compare its securitarian spectacularity with the ones built at the edges of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in the last decade. We then address the question of the ground...
(Some Provisional Writing on) Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project"
...close-reading, no well-wrought urn. Lacking the type of formal complexity that tempts us to fetishize "the poem" as a qualitatively different event than a mere sentence in prose, it’s a...
Summer Break
Dearest Readers, For the last week of August, TNI's staff and contributors will be taking a much-deserved vacation. This week you can take the time to work through...
Launching a Book Into the Birthgrave
...Novelist China Miéville joins Evan Calder-Williams to launch Calder-Williams’ book Combined and Uneven Apocalypse (Zero Books) by announcing the death of the “Salvage punk” theory it presents. Salvage Punk...
Editors' Note, Vol. 40: Trash
...present,” they write. Continuing on their tour of the museum, they pass a monumental pile of failed techno-fixes the feedback loops of capitalism have tried to employ to “black-box” waste...
Get Thee to a University
...ticket and came on the train." Hessler couldn't deviate further from the standard post–9/11 construct if she tried. No retiring domestic goddess, she, like so many other women, felt duty-bound...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)
...inscribed at the bottom of a certain quantity of dirt. It was more final than any deposits of shale. So many times we tried to go down so many times....
Geographer's Revenge
...unsolvable, being ultimately manifestations of the analyst’s pessimism or optimism. And in a complex world, pessimists and optimists can always find evidence. Contemporary geographers, however, have tried to move past...
People Sorters
...ban” for the past nine months, this kind of xenophobia was no surprise. But an interesting detail emerged as journalists tried to determine how Trump’s off-the-cuff policy proclamations might actually...
Critical Moments: Burning with Pride
...they’ve been robbed of in these stored all these years. “The people here tried legal means of getting help, and they got nothing. They begged the white people to listen...
It's Hip to Eat Mare
...prime of life and its muscle strength is too firm.] The horses I sell grow up in the south of France or in Normandy where there’s a huge horse culture....
Edith Wharton and Yo Momma
...that I tried to circumvent in the piece was that female writers will forever be judged on the way we look, something my own experience has backed up when I've...