Yasmin Nair

Hyde Park: Where Food Goes to Die

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 26, 2018

Excerpt: What kind of culinary omerta survives in Hyde Park to keep its restaurants at such a depth of mediocrity?

A World of Shame: Time, Belonging, and Social Media

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 12, 2018

Excerpt: This is a murder mystery without a murder. Think of it like a Brian De Palma movie from the 1970s: a streetwalker is found dead in an alleyway, and the detective assigned to the case is about to write it up as another transaction gone awry until he begins to see the clues that unravel a sprawling political conspiracy.
The body is incidental.

Film, Art, Television, and Media

Death by Celebrity: Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, and the Lives We Flee

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 11, 2018

Suicide isn’t something we can fully claim to understand, but it’s also not something we need to blame people for.

Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour

Exalted Slogans: The Curse of Radical Academic Discourse

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 1, 2018

Was there perhaps an indigenous tribe somewhere that had called upon Ciccariello-Maher to come save it, tweet by tweet, from persecution? None came forward to express gratitude for his bravery on their behalf.

Updates

A Quick Update and a Schedule of Upcoming Pieces

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 14, 2018

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

A Monica for Our Time: Reinventing Sex and Trauma in the Age of #MeToo

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 10, 2018

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Inclusion in the Atrocious, with Eli Massey

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 8, 2018

It is perverse to make people participate in an institution they deplore in order to access resources that should be guaranteed to all.

The Face of War, 1940 - 1941 - Salvador Dali

Updates

A Big Thank You, and a Quick Update

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 23, 2017

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Cultural Purity

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 1, 2017

If the Cultural Purity Police (CPP) had their way, they would brand British curry as theft, but every cuisine consists of an infinite number of borrowings and travels, sometimes stretching back millennia.

Animals

Frida Is Dead, and I Am Undone

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 15, 2017

I am completely undone, and am facing, for the first time in many years, life without one of my two great loves.