Seeing the Machine in Miranda Haymon's In the Penal Colony

By Jeremy O. Harris

JUL-AUG 2019 | Theater

Opening the third season of Next Door at New York Theater Workshop this July is In the Penal Colony, an adaption of Franz Kafka’s short story of the same name written and directed by Miranda Haymon.

from SHEEP MACHINE

By Vi Khi Nao

MAY 2018 | Fiction

Sheep curves to the will of time, to the will of binocular vision. Do not underestimate. The eyes of the creator manifest movement.

Entertaining Marx in the Machine of Capital

By Adam R. Burnett

OCT 2018 | Theater

Within days of the On Your Marx Festival’s press release going public, the internet was abuzz and The Skirball Center’s twitter account had garnered multiple responses from individuals coloring the institution, housed at NYU, as a propagator of brainwashing communism into the student body. But this is 2018, and this is where we are, this is what happens. And on the 200^th anniversary of Karl Marx birthday (on May 5th, actually) we might bemuse the thought, “What would Marx think about all this?”

Second Chances in the Era of the Jobless Future

By Zhandarka Kurti

MAR 2018 | Field Notes

STAND WITH MEEK MILL greets me on a billboard as I drive along Philadelphia’s I-95 and the Vine Street Expressway. Downtown, a local city SEPTA bus passes by, advertising similar messages of support.