Focus: Burroughs Now — March / April 2020
nina2022-06-16T19:17:17+00:00To read Burroughs as a writer that wrote obscene skits overlooks the larger critique his writing makes on the developing communication technologies of the twentieth century.
Focus: Latinx — January / February 2020
nina2022-06-22T22:09:24+00:00Latinx authors distill and reconstruct, in awe-inspiring and infinitely nuanced ways, the great complexity of Latinx identity.
Focus: Speculative Fiction — November / December 2019
nina2022-06-15T21:38:10+00:00There's something thrilling about stepping into a world that we at once recognize, and that is fantastically and superlatively new.
Focus: The App Issue — September / October 2019
nina2022-06-16T19:44:20+00:00Lack of communication, technological failure, and a misplaced sense of superiority has led to catastrophe and massive disruptions of human societies. But imagine if we could actually quantify and learn from our mistakes?
Focus: The Ordinary — July / August 2019
nina2022-06-17T14:30:10+00:00Familiarity, so it seems, breeds indifference. We overlook, consciously and unconsciously, the very things and experiences that are most determining of what we call our daily life.
Focus: Dance — May / June 2019
nina2022-06-17T14:45:54+00:00Dance is one of the most pure forms of human expression, and one of the most intimidating. Done well, it requires both wild abandon and adherence to the rules of technique.
Focus: #MeToo — March / April 2019
nina2022-06-17T15:14:55+00:00The #MeToo movement carries the momentum of moments, both sensational and unremarkable, that validate women's experiences of real and ongoing sexual and gender-based violence.
Focus: Graphic Nonfiction — January / February 2019
nina2022-06-17T19:10:12+00:00Creators from all over the planet have used graphic nonfiction to distill and critically reconstruct the historical, social, and political elements that make up the minutiae of everyday life.
Focus: Graphic Fiction — November / December 2018
nina2022-06-16T20:07:13+00:00Graphic fiction uses visual and verbal shaping devices to create fictional stories that invite and guide imaginative re-construction.
Focus: Theater — September / October 2018
nina2022-06-17T16:02:59+00:00Theater is life. It is in our nature to perform. From our youngest childhood experiences, we appropriate characters and roles.
Focus: Secular Writing — July / August 2018
nina2022-06-17T19:16:59+00:00Secular writing is averse to certain forms of normativism and ritualism but supportive of humanistic engagements with the spiritual.
Focus: Harassment — May / June 2018
nina2024-06-26T20:45:25+00:00Harassment exists on a continuum with violence. The coping mechanisms people cultivate to prevent and deal with harassment become habitual.
