Studies of the Mind

Our Studies of the Mind issue is an exploration of identity, and of resilience. By The Editors

Boxy But Good

On Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16, form, and function By Kirsten Kaschock

Looking for You to Find Me

Questioning inherited trauma By Angela Wright

Me Seeing You Seeing Me

Artistic interpretations of an inner life By Genevieve Walker

Defying Boundaries: On Psychogeography and the Flâneuse

An interview with Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse, about gender, art, psychogeography - and above all, walking By Michele Filgate

Shinichi Higashi/Flickr

New City

A dystopian tale of gentrification By Amy Shearn

2 Poems

"may we all refuse to die at the same time" and "Channels to fall asleep to" By Tongo Eisen-Martin

Living in Drought Can Make You Crazy And Other Poems

Original poetry By Cassandra Dallett

Canine and Diptych

Original poetry By J.D. Smith

redwoods

North

Original poetry By Christine No

Radical Mindfulness

What do we lose by separating mindfulness from Buddhism? By Daniel M. Choi

The Self in Science Fiction

A Review of Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin By Erin Sharkey

Blog

Debunker: Is the Grand Central Missed Connection a Fake?

The latest viral Craigslist “Missed Connection,” by a man recounting a brief romance with a woman he met at Grand Central Station forty years ago, generated a whole lot of
By TBQ

Blog

Marc Dennis: “Paint is sex. Photography is not sex.”

Looking at his work quickly, you’ll probably think Marc Dennis is a photographer. Look a bit closer, though, and there’s something a bit off about the scenes he portrays: destabilizing
By Kayla Tanenbaum

Interviews

A New Generation of Bold Progressives

Alexia Nader interviews the founders of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC).
By Alexia Nader

Essays

One Story Becomes Many

Kori Cioca and the power of The Invisible War
By Kori Cioca

Blog

“The Rent is Too Damn High”

New York City rent vs. income, ZIP by ZIP
By TBQ

Blog

Pantoum for the Water and You

Original poetry
By Samuel Piccone

Blog

On “Legislative Art”: Laurie Jo Reynolds and Tamms Year Ten

What is the role of art in shaping public policy and fostering political change?
By Jane Carr

Blog

Between the Door and the Street’s Ora Wise on Art as Social Engagement

TBQ interviews Brooklyn activist Ora Wise TBQ: How did you get involved in Between the Door and the Street? ORA WISE: It was very serendipitous. For the past six years,
By TBQ

Interviews

Our Civic Religion

An interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes on his best-selling Twilight of the Elites
By TBQ

Essays

Fortune’s Fools

Bad news: We might have created the perfect meritocracy. An essay by Rob Goodman
By Rob Goodman

Essays

The Five-Hundred Year Flood

Anna North reflects on community and rootedness in Iowa during the catastrophic 2008 Midwest floods.
By Anna North

Interviews

Make, Listen, Read

Jane Carr talks with Akashic Books founder and Brooklyn Literary Council chair Johnny Temple.
By Jane Greenway Carr