Often grotesque and always insightful, Not Here to Make Friends views contemporary culture through the prism of reality TV. The magazine’s writers are clearly obsessed with reality TV, but they don’t always seem to enjoy it in a straightforward way, and the result is a clever and critical look at sex, power, and money as it plays out on our screens.

 
In this issue:

• The long and troubled tradition of women eating (or not eating) on TV
• Enduring the increasingly extreme ordeal of Alone
• Dance Moms, social media, and Abby Lee Miller as The Algorithm
• Illusion, inequality, and the emergence of reality TV in Dubai
• And one woman uses the Real Housewives as a way to understand her own life lived in service to the male ideal