In Praise of Fake Reviews
...sample-size portions of the whole menu, this Elite Yelper went in for the kill: “Think of all the great reviews you’ll get.” *** If Yelp is not opposed to its...
Body Mass Index
...from its heroine or its audience the typical range of video-game tasks. Unlike the action-movie or war-game hero, Bullock has nothing to shoot and no one to kill. Her task,...
Sunday Reading
...love (but no, for real always read gukira) 7 thoughts on women in games (And trans people, and queers, and everyone else who feels this.) Kill all men. Cool quotes...
Sunday Reading
...Life in Kerala, India (1937) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina "Like numerous other aspects of modernity, uniforms first penetrated Turkish culture through the military" Criminality and Colonial...
Announcing Ayesha Siddiqi
...of TNI Magazine featuring Ayesha's work: [r]Click the image or PDF link to download[/r] Featuring "Bikini Kill" by Ayesha Siddiqi Featuring "Prescription Strike" by Ayesha Siddiqi Featuring "Can the White...
The Plague Years
...is more virus than video and whether it’s dangerous in some way, though this kind of question can be addressed with variations on familiar critiques of mass culture. But a...
The New Inquiry Vol. 55: Testing
...absent from teachers who imposed punishments driving her to contemplate suicide “more days than not.” Cheating’s “tiny filament of comradeship” was a lifeline. Her experience is far from abnormal: one...
Preferential Immunity
...first reaction upon hearing the Ebola news was casual curiosity. It was only upon a doctor friend impressing Ebola’s “it will kill you” nature upon me did I even consider...
Family Planning
...“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Thus wrote Margaret Sanger, the mother of birth control and founder...
2. Consumed by Abstraction
...editors - who had always argued in favor of corporate takeovers - began whining about how their takeover by Rupert Murdoch would "kill the culture" of the newspaper. Ha. Likewise,...
Where Nothing Can Possibly Go “Worng”
...we have to create a world that won’t kill us, and avoid the ones that will. After all, The Apprentice was great reality TV until it became reality. ...
Living is Easy
...When it comes to summer entertainment, movies are shouting about nothing into empty theatres. Then they kill everyone Summer movies promise us many things, but mostly they promise recognizable...
All Eyez on Not-Me
...Kill, and Nirvana. It’s surprising that such a notoriously skeptical generation seems to have embraced (or at least not dismissed outright) Holopac. As a culture we are seemingly obsessed with...
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Policing the Troubles
...buy sweets, a hooded Ogilby was beaten to death by teenage girls with bricks in a “romper room”—a disused space where those “convicted” were sent to be tortured and killed....
Sunday Reading
...prison strikes in US history A growing grassroots movement in Mexico is resisting the US-backed drug war "'We’re going to kill all of you,' the [police] officers warned." Aaron Cantú:...