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Giantess

The radical is so often imagined as the marginal that sometimes the truly subversive escapes detection just by showing up in a tuxedo instead of a T-shirt or a ski…

Something About Eating

by Robert Walser,

By Robert Walser (1878–1956), from Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories, a collection that will be published next month by NYRB Classics. Translated from the German by Tom Whalen.

The Habits of Highly Cynical People

by Rebecca Solnit,

On April 24, 1916 — Easter Monday — Irish republicans in Dublin and a handful of other places staged an armed rebellion against British occupation. At the time, the British…

Crossing the Valley

by Walter Kirn,

Like campaigning politicians, pornographers — who are also in the business of galvanizing tired nervous systems — face one problem that never goes away: cutting through the numbness caused by…

Last fall, young people gathered in protest at dozens of universities across the country. Students of color spoke about feeling unwelcome or invisible, of being stereotyped, slighted, excluded, harassed. One…

Weary Oracle

by Dawn Lundy Martin,

By Dawn Lundy Martin. Martin is the author of four books of poetry, including Good Stock, which will be published by Coffee House Press in 2016. She teaches at the…

Blanket Security

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

By Thomas Chatterton Williams. Williams is the author of the memoir Losing My Cool, published by Penguin Press in 2010.

A Kind of Grace

by Hannah Black,

By Hannah Black. Black is an artist and writer from the U.K. She is the author of Dark Pool Party, which was published last month by Dominica/Arcadia Missa.

Common Cause

by Alix Rule,

By Alix Rule. Rule is a doctoral student in sociology at Columbia University.

Political Correction

by Osita Nwanevu,

By Osita Nwanevu. Nwanevu is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago and the editor of the South Side Weekly.

We Out Here

by Wesley Yang,

By Wesley Yang. Yang has written for New York magazine, the New York Times, and n+1. He is at work on his first book.

Social aspects

Giantess

Something About Eating

The Habits of Highly Cynical People

Crossing the Valley

Introduction

Weary Oracle

Blanket Security

A Kind of Grace

Common Cause

Political Correction

We Out Here

Debug

Social aspects

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Giantess

Something About Eating

The Habits of Highly Cynical People

Crossing the Valley

Introduction

Weary Oracle

Blanket Security

A Kind of Grace

Common Cause

Political Correction

We Out Here

March 2016

Debug