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...
"Performance in Shailja Patel's 'Migritude'"
...(or on amazon.com) I want to tease out and play with that distinction. There’s a tension, a felt tension between: “Migritude” the “one-woman show,” traveled around the world this book,...
Un(der)known Writers: Gary Fisher
...Excerpted and submitted by Zoe Sharpe. Thanks Zoe! If you have excerpts from writers you think are criminally un(der)known and we should highlight, you can send them to [email protected]...
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...
Love song of J. Lacan
... "I have no wish to rehash the whole thing again, but I will present it for you in a more syncopated way." Lacanian love song: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2012/09/14-Track-14.mp3|titles=Lacanian Love...
Being Boys
Make masculinity and its traces quake at the impending danger creeping up on it
Security Theater
...belief in the malevolent world can bring, the crisis actor subculture suffers the same kinds of internal drama found in every online community. Ed Chiarini of WellAware1.com is one of...
Dancing Days
...Throw making money off of sex into that equation, and the stakes are raised. Send your feedback and responses to [email protected]. But when Mike says those lines, we actually believe...
Toward a Feminist Astrobiology
...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....
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...
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...
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.”...
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...
A Compleat To-Do List for the 34-to-56-Year-Old American Woman, as Determined by Ad Placement on Lifetime Television's Premiere of "Flowers in the Attic"
...Creations) Be appropriately compensated for injury sustained in truck accident (Cellino & Barnes, 800-888-888, Call8.com) Call Cellino & Barnes on new phone (T-Mobile) Get rid of this damn migraine/remind self...
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...