Do you know what “aggressive water” is? How about “iceblink”? “Hydropot”? Read our weekend links for H20-related definitions, a review of Adrian Piper’s retrospective at the MoMA, and a look at the new wave of predominantly male-authored fiction in which male protagonists are permitted to be vulnerable.
Read MoreIn an interview with Vulture, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about Melania Trump and expectations of manhood, while a panel of photographers and writers address the importance of creatively depicting climate change. A late artist’s utopian vision of Zaire (now the DRC) made from repurposed trash is on display at the MoMA.
Read MoreThis week, we look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign posters, author Ottessa Moshfegh’s fake letters to Donald Trump, Tom Kiefer’s photo series El Sueño Americano, the boys’ clubs of design and rare books worlds, M.H. Miller’s devastating struggle with student debt, and more.
Read MoreAlisson Wood, MFA candidate and author of the forthcoming book Being Lolita, shares some of her favorite things at the moment, including Neko Case’s new album, feminist parody play Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf, and, surprisingly, pigeons.
Read MoreThis week’s weekend links features a discussion of the “Dead Girl Show,” Hannah Gadsby’s very funny stand-up special Nanette, artists Paloma McGregor, KangHee Kim, Daniel José Older, and more.
Read MoreThe photographer of the viral image showing a young girl separated from her mother describes his grief; to help the cause of reuniting parents with their children, all sales of our magazine through the weekend will go to benefit RAICES.
Read MoreLindsay Eyth takes on the patriarchy in Self-Defense, her first solo exhibition, on display at RECSPEC Gallery.
Read MoreWith the FCC repeal of net neutrality underway, artists whose work employs the Internet will suffer; in an interview with The Paris Review, Maggie Nelson shares her thoughts on genre fluidity; Grindr launches a Los Angeles-based production studio to support LGBTQ video work.
Read MoreMeg Fee is the author of Places I Stopped on The Way Home, an exploration of the formative years she spent in the city as a 20-something. In this interview, she talks about New York City as a cultural construct, finding home, and turning 30.
Read MoreA selection of photos from our ninth issue release party, held at Slantspace in Austin on May 25, 2018.
Read MorePhotos from surveillance cameras stationed in empty spaces become eerie photographs; the search for miracle elixirs and potions had predated the election; Andres Gonzales photographs schools after gun shootings.
Read MoreExplore Filmistan, the film production company that is also a village in Mumbai; read an interview with Katerina Gregos, the curator behind the world’s first contemporary art biennial in Riga, Latvia; how can crime fiction be progressive?
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