Forum: The Logic of Misogyny
Opening
Moralistic or not, misogyny is not about hating women. It is about controlling them.
Ideas & Fiction
Government has always played an outsize role in creating jobs—and still can.
- September 13, 2016
Many young children become obsessed with gender. How do we know which are trans?
- August 9, 2016
How did we come to view social insurance as socialist?
- July 25, 2016
On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.
- August 2, 2016
2016 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner selected by Jennifer Egan.
- September 12, 2016
- August 8, 2016
Local government can't fix our problems. Only big government can.
- July 18, 2016
Debt still sends many people—especially black people—to jail.
- August 1, 2016
War is almost always a choice, a madness we go along with.
- August 15, 2016
body where none existed
God drew two bodies as one
went crooked . . .
- July 20, 2016
Poetry is offering new candor about the ways men care for their children.
- June 17, 2016
A stunning trove of letters from Elizabeth Bishop to her therapist sheds light on the personal secrets that shaped her poetry.
- August 17, 2016
Tilda Swinton, icon of indy cinema, is masterful in A Bigger Splash.
- July 14, 2016
Poetry
Two people I love are parting.
I left
my shoes in the desert. Maybe
I’m like
a wedding, I have a formal
need to make
these two ideas meet . . .
- August 24, 2016
This view of the cliffs.
A passing cloud.
A scattering of yellow paint.
A pink feather on the wire.
- August 31, 2016
See how the firmament loosens
like a clod of earth how the horizon
crackles like two skulls wrapped in velvet
- September 7, 2016
On you we barnacles
cling and scratch,
your rising fog
burning through . . .
- September 14, 2016
Take this cup away from me
with its hints
of ammonia and dill,
oak or corrosion.
Who knows, really?
- August 10, 2016
cyan sea.
Salt burns my nose when I
look down.
Nothing is near that belongs
to me . . .
- October 5, 2016
The gods offer blank slates. The gods offer black marker smiles. They offer profit, excess, cardboard
box-headed children to the void so I don’t have to.
- June 24, 2016
we did.
I used to be a slightly handsome
boy, then
this happened. . . .
- July 27, 2016
wasn’t easy, or, apparently,
that
difficult. . . .
- August 3, 2016
. . . Free is not a negro doused
in white, blanched,
bleached, and sent down
the path. Free
almost never means alive, so
please try—
I’m asking for help.
- November 2, 2016
I want to get
to the managed care
evening,
where the future appears
to stream directly
into the past . . .
- August 17, 2016
mourns. It’s the art we still dream once was.
- June 24, 2016
