C Magazine

This issue, on Institutions, picks up threads from the fall 2018 issue on Trust, acting as a kind of sister publication. As the Trust issue came together earlier this year, it was clear that one of the most critical sites in which trust is at stake i

1 All quotes are from Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen DeWitt (New York: New Directions Books, 2018). Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen DeWitt is itself a bit of a trick. Thirteen being an auspicious number, the reader is obliged to attribut

When I try to picture a New Man, I think immediately of textured hair products, of conceptual photography, of the sipping of espressos in gallery-white cafés with baby-shaped lumps on chests. Of guys on bikes with just-filled growlers in their pannie

Jackie Wang is “a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, performer, library rat, trauma monster, and PhD candidate at Harvard University.” 1 I was first introduced to her writing in 2012 when some prairie prison