Against the Universe
July 16, 2021
Space Jam: A New Legacy takes the cinematic universe to its logical conclusion.
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Writer on the Storm
July 14, 2021
George R. Stewart’s ecofictions forecasted today’s calamities.
Nakba
My mother is three years younger than Nakba.But she doesn’t believe in great powers.Twice a day she brings God down from his thronethen reconciles with himthrough the mediation of the bestrecorded Quranic recitations.And she can’t bear meek women.She never once mentioned ...
Broader Crises
July 13, 2021
Indian border-crossers illuminate the interconnectedness of mass migration.
Against Our Vanishing
July 12, 2021
Before the publication of her photo book The Other Side in 1993, Nan Goldin asked her old friend Shellburne Thurber to return to the site of its namesake, the decadent drag bar in Boston that played slightly passé disco. Twenty years earlier, it had been their nightly hangout ...
Fresh Hell
July 09, 2021
The Forever Poké War
With little fanfare, the United States withdrew the last of its remaining forces from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan—from which the military waged an unconscionably expensive war for nearly two decades—last week. But the digital traces of the occupation ...
Hollywood Justice
The celebrity lawyer’s myopic pursuit of international justice.
Trouble Every Day
July 09, 2021
In a “documentary fiction,” photographer Gilles revisits the Troubles.
Cruelest Summer
July 06, 2021
What is the cost of comfort?
Fresh Hell
July 02, 2021
Ketchup on the Good News
As millions of Americans prepare to fire up their grills to celebrate our god awful, god-fearing nation’s forging in the fires of racist violence 245 years ago, the refined minds of Insider have a word of advice: “Just because you can cook outside ...
Cosby Walks
As courts protect powerful men, they cannot enforce women's silence
Life on the Edge
July 01, 2021
On the climate change attribution trap.