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Essays & Reviews

Humid, All Too Humid

By Cosmo Bjorkenheim and A.M. GittlitzJanuary 22, 2013

...Earthquakes in Japan, Thailand, Chile, Pakistan, Haiti, etc. were the result of global warming? Only pseudoscientists have answers, which are about as compelling as religious fanaticism. And those condemned Bangladeshis,...

The Beheld

Beauty Blogosphere 8.17.12

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoAugust 17, 2012

...not that my legs are a fraction as strong as Olympians')—when none of those features are particularly valued in our culture...yes, it feels sort of validating. Twenty-eight, looking great: Women...

Essays & Reviews

Party Time

By Ross PerlinMarch 28, 2013

...Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas. Antiques meant nothing — or trouble. The fervent modernist destruction of the past foreshadowed (and inspired) our postmodern passion for preserving it....

The Beheld

Thoughts on a Word: Fine

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoOctober 4, 2012

...songs about fine women is initially perplexing. Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Clarence Garlow, The Easybeats, Flash Cadillac, Big Boy Myles, Roscoe Dash—all of these artists have recorded a song entitled...

Essays & Reviews

Run, Boy, Run

By Nina PowerJuly 17, 2014

...about a hypocritical religious figure, could just as easily be read as a feminist or reparations revenge anthem. Typically, revenge anthems—like love songs—are too limited. Why punish one cheating bastard...

South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Where's the Information?

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviApril 23, 2023

...re-reading John Berryman's The Dream Songs, which I do or think about doing every day, I'm also reading Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Yogas of Dream & Sleep: Practices for...

Essays & Reviews

Little Orphan Nellie

By Laurie PennyJuly 18, 2014

...turn up somewhere ripped and stoned and undercover and immerse yourself in a culture or practice, then write viscerally, from the brain and the gut. In fact, women were doing...

Marginal Utility

My David Bowie

By Rob HorningJanuary 12, 2016

...I can't imagine I would have asked for it. Still, I was deeply disappointed by it at the time. The spoken-word section in Japanese that opens the album put me...

Uncategorized

St. Paul (A Screenplay)

By Pier Paolo PasoliniSeptember 11, 2014

...companions flee, in the midst of the chaos of the alley, among the little bars of the seaside city, with the lights on in the middle of the night, songs,...

The Beheld

The Scent(s) of a Woman

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoJune 13, 2014

...evanescent as a smell have a history and a culture?”) and (2) its current status as “girl stuff.” Comparatively, the study of wine—which shares a focus on smell and descriptive...

Socialism and/or Barbarism

The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 4

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 22, 2013

...pinning it under me beside the car. It writhed and dripped and started singing broken snippets of my favorite songs, messing up the same words that I did each time,...

Essays & Reviews

City of Praise

By Sara BivigouMay 8, 2015

...leaks fluorescent light and you can hear male and female voices singing worship songs. It is as if their praise powers the building. London is ever changing; that’s what cities...

Wiathi

Africa : Queer : Anthropology

By Keguro MachariaJuly 28, 2018

...more concerned in the anthropology of the changingAfrican, and in the anthropology of the contact of white and coloured, of European culture and primitive tribal life. A mentor told me...

The Beheld

"Never could I tell him it was him."

By Phoebe Maltz BovyFebruary 12, 2013

... Rufus being Rufus. By atp tyreseus [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Rufus Wainwright’s song, “The Art Teacher,” which I had the great joy of hearing live last...

LIES

By TNIFebruary 2020

...social media are all over fake news and deep fakes. In a culture obsessed with performing veracity, lies are a kind of politics. May our fake visions be as seditious...

Features

Vol. 73 Editors’ Note: Lies

By The New InquiryFebruary 3, 2020

What will be the story of how we made another world?