Here to Make Friends
...would be obnoxious ... When a 10-year-old with a New York accent does it, you die.” Kid Nation’s contestants yearned to radically reimagine an adult game but weren’t allowed. On...
Body / Cock: The Body That is Not Personal
This is how I learn to live life with death as my equal
The Revolution that Wasn't
...handle the wounded, whose numbers had already reached the hundreds. They’d seen this all before, after all. They were men of the square, there to fight and perhaps to die,...
History Made Queasy
...am about to die," Taylor told his wife, whom he had summoned to his side. "I regret nothing, but I am sorry to leave my friends." Some five days after...
Foreword to Violette Leduc's La Bâtarde
...narcissism, egocentricity, loneliness. “My ugliness will set me apart until I die,” writes Violette Leduc. This interpretation does not satisfy me. The woman depicted in La bâtarde interests dressmakers and...
Fire Escape
...subordinance, Reno also avoids victimhood. Reno does not die, she does not despair, and she doesn’t break down. The difference has something to do with her connection to a machine:...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...as a sort of literary explanation of his decision to die. — Jan Steyn, “Afterward” to Suicide by Edouard Levé An act, followed by a text, followed by an interpretation...
The Anger of the Sick
The dismissals and disparities of the US healthcare system become grounds for a militant call to transform care in a new memoir, Blackfishing the IUD.
London, Underground
...and women who threw themselves into the Aldgate Pit to die. “They fell quite naked among the rest,” Daniel Defoe wrote in his Journal of the Plague Year, “but the...
Death by Immortality
...to obey signals to moderate their speed or to die. They are, in fact, death-defying cells that kill. Immortality cannot survive in our bodies. From a cancer cell’s perspective, debility,...
Lockdown
...compared to malaria or the ensuing influenza epidemic, for example, was the large-scale flight of capital and labor that threatened its interests. But another significant factor was that, prior to...
Re: Ordinance Prohibiting the Possession of the Tools of Violence And Vandalism During a Demonstration
...time, breaches, spinners, the fact that either Albom or Morrie or both didn't know their Auden for shit because the correct line is "We must love one another or die,"...
Hive Minds
...must be told of their keeper's death, because leaving them uninformed would cause them either to leave the hive or die. In England, a hive moved slightly to the right...
Kenya’s Three Tribes
...will all feel very Kenyan indeed. They die, and we forget about 350,000 internally displaced Kenyans, stolen World Bank monies, missing Education Ministry funds, the ICC-Kenya trials, 2012 elections, our...
Bleak House
...them. One workhouse, the Herne Common, was constructed in such a way that every window faced an inner court. "No wonder that they would die of starvation rather than let...
Love, Mystery, and Irrationality
...his dangerous fantasies, capable of exaltations, ready to die for all that the world has as well for what it has not.” - E. M. Cioran, On the Heights of...