Vol. 71 Editors' Note: Escape
How the hell do I get out of here?
Love Homoscopes
...ableism, all those jerks together at that intersection of extraction have always tried to relegate and regulate the practitioners of the occult because it is a very powerful social space....
The Hair Back There
...hard you tried, nothing could de-kink a person’s kitchen.” The kitchen meant resistance. The kitchen saw the options available to make it "tame," and it refused them. It would be...
Gamifying Beauty
...few errant sounds—but it couldn’t compare to the afternoon I spent teaching myself to play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on ukelele.) Enter beauty apps, which mimic acts that fall somewhere...
Best American Poetry Pseudonyms
...tried very hard to do; at best, your omissions and failures might not be glaring. But that’s it, that’s the best case scenario, to fail not so badly. There’s no...
M and A
...an overarching Headless-style endeavor. This one seeks to complete the 18th century work of August Nordenskiöld—an amateur alchemist who tried create gold with the ultimate aim of devaluing it—within today’s...
Portrait of an Iranian Witch
...my field notebook, setting it aflame inside the bathroom of her suite. She said she had not tried anything new, but she had teased the ex-beau about the possibility: A...
Sunday Reading
..."Art could, by prefiguring the ideal culture, push society into the future." Linda Rodriguez: “Fiddling With Freedom: Solomon Northup’s Musical Trade in 12 Years a Slave” “It’s a fascinating process...
Beauty Blogosphere 9.7.12
...the solution, just as banning photo retouching does little to address the root concerns it's meant to address. What the solution is, I don't know. Glad Brigitte tried; unsurprised it...
Achilles 2.0
...his former comrade-in-arms Tihomir Blaskic, who was tried for war crimes at The Hague: …I thought about what I would have said if they had questioned me, how I would...
Beyond MLK
...been called out by activists repeatedly for his riot-shaming and victim-blaming, yet rather than apologizing, the great patriarch has tried to bad-jacket them as “provocateurs.” But the street kids made...
Lady Wranglers
...all levels, and I’ve been increasingly curious about where this pernicious idea came from, how people have tried to address it, and why it persists. This semester, I’m teaching a...
Noshing with Nomads
...even though it will mean lugging some sixty cartons of them through high summer’s swelter. I tried in the past to break myself of this packrat-ish impulse, lest it end...
Nina Bhatti, Founder, Kokko Beauty, Los Altos, California
...to a makeup artist and they look at your skin and characterize what product is going to work. I took the manual process and tried to automate it. So once...
The Evil to Come
For a brief moment, each one of us saw the possibility of the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world
Square and Circle: The Logic of Occupy
...of the camp whenever they tried to enter. But attempts to mediate the conflict essentially failed, and S. seemed immune to all reason. One day, after he had started another...