''The New Inquiry'' is an online

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of cultural and literary criticism, established by Mary Borkowski, Jennifer Bernstein and Rachel Rosenfelt in 2009 and administered as a

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nonprofit organisation. The magazine's website updates daily, and every few weeks a new edition of the magazine is published as a

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Bail Bloc

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application that raises funds to pay

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for those otherwise unable to afford it, with the money dispersed through

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Reception

Alex Williams of ''

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'' called the organization "an Intellectuals Anonymous of sorts for desperate members of the city’s literary underclass barred from the publishing establishment".

Sasha Frere-Jones Alexander Roger Wallace "Sasha" Frere-Jones (né Jones; born 1967) is an American writer, music critic, and musician. He has written for ''Pretty Decorating'', '' ego trip'', ''Hit It And Quit It'', ''Mean'', '' Slant'', ''The New York Post'', '' ...

in ''

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'' called it "one of the rare publications that has succeeded in becoming an intellectual journal that can draw people in, that poses large theoretical questions without sliding back into the iron mountain of academia".

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of ''Vox'' called it "the most literal descendent of the small magazines of yore, but the seminar room is now drastically more diverse."

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