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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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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The World and What it Isn't: Dinaw Mengestu's "All Our Names."
...similarity of human culture; though he did draw parallels between African and English authoritarian patriarchs, he was primarily interested in the way Okonkwo’s Africa had to be erased and forgotten...
The Art of Memoir: Outside is Trouble
...world another hurdle obstructing the course of romance, and when desires are left to be sated on the residuals of the disappeared object — or when language, culture, class, and...
Mirror Binge
...it here.) And one of the reasons I don't write about it here is because I'm firm in my belief that we as a culture have overconnected eating disorders to...
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We’re Gonna Need A Better Script: Uneven Representation of Women Scientists in Shark Films
...Lab coats in Hollywood: Science, scientists, and cinema . MIT Press, 2011. Inness, Sherrie, ed. Geek chic: Smart women in popular culture . Springer, 2016. Lady Science is an independent...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.11.13
...Side of the Moon?" (Um.) Slow violence: We're finally having necessary conversations about our culture of violence. Minh-Ha T. Pham asks us to look at the gendered "slow violence" we...
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
TNI Rex (4)
...of producing a massive archive of bizarre scenes and harrowing close calls from Russian roadways. An intricate web culture has sprung up on Russian forums dedicated to uploading sharing these...
Get real
...belonging, not the acts of an egregiously desperate victim of image culture. The moral tenor of the novel is that America has been swept over by superficiality, by artificiality, by...
Weed
...far behind, Andrew Beccone of the Reanimation Library digs into the archive for the hippies, scientists, and peddlers of moral panic of 20th century weed culture. In the reviews section,...