A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye

South Lebanon is a lesson in steadfastness — an obstinate and determined testament to the willingness of an indigenous people to confront their occupier and achieve absolute victory. Israel’s…

Health Equity Capture

Nisha Chicken Salad” on Weight Watchers’s website bears little resemblance to the salad Nisha Godfrey went viral for in 2022. It is two cups of spinach leaves with three ounces of grilled skinless,…

Seoul to Squeeze

Seoul neighborhood of Bogwang-dong sits on a steep hill rising over the Han River. In Korean, neighborhoods built on hazardous slopes are called dal-dongnae, or moon villages, because they seem to …

Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim

Kim is a poet, writer, and Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University. Her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, traces the history of US m…

Counter-mapping Complicity

feels impossible to sit and write amidst the constant grief and urgency demanded in this ongoing genocide. Yet we feel compelled to write—compelled to document and archive the mobilisations that ha…

One Year

7, 2024—Today, we can expect a parade of treacly sycophantism, brazen sociopathy, and humanist admonishment. They write for their mark, the reader they assume to be a dupe, slack-jawed and cowed by…

World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Khalili

is difficult to overstate the centrality of shipping to contemporary capitalism. Indeed, without shipping, it is difficult to imagine the birth of capitalism at all. Between 80 and 90% of world tra…

World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Kahlili

is difficult to overstate the centrality of shipping to contemporary capitalism. Indeed, without shipping, it is difficult to imagine the birth of capitalism at all. Between 80 and 90% of world tra…

Some Country for Some Women

the question “how are we to live in an atomic age?” the writer C.S. Lewis declared, in a 1948 essay, that we think “a great deal too much” about atomic annihilation. Referencing this on her podcast…

The Sentimentality of Evil

think about The Zone of Interest (2023) while I am making my kids’ lunches, running their baths, folding laundry. Similar domestic routines make up much of the film’s action, the center of its stud…

The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence

It was dusk for kilometers and bats in the lavender sky, like spiders when a fly is caught, began to appear. And there, not the promised land, but barbwire and barbwire with nothing growing under i…

Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir

You may have seen Hindu Indians expressing their sycophantic admiration for Israel—both online under posts about Zionists as well as in parades and marches. But the relationship between Israel and …

Care: The Highest Form of Capitalism

In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—one that begat many a mommy thinkpiece, many a motherhood memoir, almost all of which decried and valorized the hard work of mothering—Premilla Nadasen…

“Set the terms of your struggle: ” The Cal Poly Humboldt Commune Speaks

This interview was edited for clarity and length and a shorter version originally appeared in the print edition of The New York War Crimes. The New York War Crimes: Tell us about the first day of t…

A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye

South Lebanon is a lesson in steadfastness — an obstinate and determined testament to the willingness of an indigenous people to confront their occupier and achieve absolute victory. Israel’s…

Health Equity Capture

Nisha Chicken Salad” on Weight Watchers’s website bears little resemblance to the salad Nisha Godfrey went viral for in 2022. It is two cups of spinach leaves with three ounces of grilled skinless,…

Seoul to Squeeze

Seoul neighborhood of Bogwang-dong sits on a steep hill rising over the Han River. In Korean, neighborhoods built on hazardous slopes are called dal-dongnae, or moon villages, because they seem to …

Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim

Kim is a poet, writer, and Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University. Her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, traces the history of US m…

Counter-mapping Complicity

feels impossible to sit and write amidst the constant grief and urgency demanded in this ongoing genocide. Yet we feel compelled to write—compelled to document and archive the mobilisations that ha…

One Year

7, 2024—Today, we can expect a parade of treacly sycophantism, brazen sociopathy, and humanist admonishment. They write for their mark, the reader they assume to be a dupe, slack-jawed and cowed by…

World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Khalili

is difficult to overstate the centrality of shipping to contemporary capitalism. Indeed, without shipping, it is difficult to imagine the birth of capitalism at all. Between 80 and 90% of world tra…

World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Kahlili

is difficult to overstate the centrality of shipping to contemporary capitalism. Indeed, without shipping, it is difficult to imagine the birth of capitalism at all. Between 80 and 90% of world tra…

Some Country for Some Women

the question “how are we to live in an atomic age?” the writer C.S. Lewis declared, in a 1948 essay, that we think “a great deal too much” about atomic annihilation. Referencing this on her podcast…

The Sentimentality of Evil

think about The Zone of Interest (2023) while I am making my kids’ lunches, running their baths, folding laundry. Similar domestic routines make up much of the film’s action, the center of its stud…

The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence

It was dusk for kilometers and bats in the lavender sky, like spiders when a fly is caught, began to appear. And there, not the promised land, but barbwire and barbwire with nothing growing under i…

Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir

You may have seen Hindu Indians expressing their sycophantic admiration for Israel—both online under posts about Zionists as well as in parades and marches. But the relationship between Israel and …

Care: The Highest Form of Capitalism

In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—one that begat many a mommy thinkpiece, many a motherhood memoir, almost all of which decried and valorized the hard work of mothering—Premilla Nadasen…

“Set the terms of your struggle: ” The Cal Poly Humboldt Commune Speaks

This interview was edited for clarity and length and a shorter version originally appeared in the print edition of The New York War Crimes. The New York War Crimes: Tell us about the first day of t…