Police Mortality
...extracted hundreds of scenes. Many are hilarious out of context, in which police are killed, kill, or otherwise act piggish. Impressively, the clips communicate well enough with one another to...
Sunday Reading
...feats, and part of what fascinated me was the ease with which they went in and out of it" long list of good art tumblrs pizza-compass.com Bint Battuta: A veritable...
Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome Charyn
...Jerome Charyn and Michael Seidenberg in conversation at Brazenhead Books. Introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Part 1: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/03/CharynMichaelFinalpt1.mp3|titles=Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome Charyn Part 1] Part 2: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/03/JandMfullpt2_1-2.mp3|titles=Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome...
The Last Cat
...faces America.” In hindsight of course it is clear that the day’s most historically significant launch was that of the website ICanHasCheezburger.com, though it would be months before the establishment...
Secret Catalan Poem
...seems more accurate: "From late Middle English, in the sense 'announce publicly,' from Latin divulgare, from di- 'widely' + vulgare "publish, from vulgus 'common people.'" Thanks to Ethel and César...
Black Friday
...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...
TNI Hosts: Conservative Thought Salon
...that there is a curricular imbalance when it comes to teaching the history of conservative thought in university. And so, we are educating ourselves. Cf. Mark Lilla’s 2009 article in...
Resistance in the Neoliberal City
...rent housing in the United States. But even putting nostalgia aside, it was not always this way. The second coming of dot-com wealth, venture capital, and neoliberal development has eviscerated...
Blogging the Caine Prize 2012
...(drop me a line if you want to take part: aaron A@T thenewinquiry DO.T com). Drum roll! The 2012 shortlist (these are links to full pdfs of the stories): May...
Protected: Creating a Blog
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"Fractals" by Joanna Walsh: Short Story and Giveaway
...Walsh is a writer, illustrator, and artist. She draws and writes for The Guardian, The Times, Metro, The Idler, FiveDials, 3:AM, Berfrois.com, Necessaryfiction.com, and The White Review, amongst others. She...
The Revolution that Wasn't
...capturing the scene behind him. The gas clouds soon enveloped him when I tried to talk to him, and, dazed by inhalation, I had to help him off the front...
"Let Loose Your Tongue"
...she first came across this novel? Elisabeth Jaquette (Lissie): I found it through the tried and true method of haranguing people for book recommendations. I was studying at CASA at...
Dinner with Caligula
...consequence, sold, sexually and physically abused. At the feast of Trimalchio, a young boy dropped a goblet. Trimalchio looked at him and said: “Hey, clumsy, go and kill yourself.” But...
Editors' Note, Vol. 35: Sick
...live partly outside of measure, and often makes them crazy too. Another kind of crazy-making death-in-life is is living with the knowledge that you have tried to kill yourself, as...
Syria and the Left: A Call to Arms
...camps, while the remaining 90 percent have tried to assimilate in urban, peri-urban and rural areas. This does not include the scores of unregistered refugees. While Turkey hosts roughly half...