Live Update
...others, alive today, soon to die, (who knows when or whom, maybe you, or me, or the him or her who's more to you than you) who with more or...
Septuplus
..."Banquet," "Exhaling Birds," "Anthropogenesis," "Global Positioning System," "Oratory," and "Sine Die," with a frontispiece excerpt from Attar's The Conference of the Birds. Here's "Oratory": Read the entire issue here....
¡Viva la revolución! A pledge from Susan Surandon
...are too precious to risk battle. I'm not ready to die. Instead, I have designated myself Oracle of our burgeoning army. I will be the keeper of the resistance's future;...
Don't Stop Beliebing
...kill your boss? Instead, watch Jennifer Aniston die a gruesome death in Horrible Bosses!” L: They are shocked — shocked, I say! — when their target audience takes to the...
#Ferguson
...the exception to that rule. But they show it to us daily. They fall silent when we suffer. They look away when we die. They exist beside us daily, living,...
Sick City, Soaked Lens
...I cried into the great wars And what have I achieved? Soon I shall die The film then cuts to another view of that same junction, but from a distance,...
Steal This Article
...the head of Walmart is not your grandmother. Stealing from a corrupt class of corporate elites who would rather a thousand Bangladeshis die horrific deaths in burning sweatshops than see...
The Birth of Motherhood
...women who die in childbirth, there are still things that happen that require medical intervention; the birth center is straddling the precise intersection of that really uneasy in-between space of...
Women in armed struggle
...to die on the same kitchen tables where we laid out the majority of our free labor, or, with a knitting needle stuck in our uterus, we bled out on...
I'm Not Ready
...differences may be minutiae, but those at the mercy of them live and die in those inches. The Affordable Care Act, for example, is flawed and has huge gaping holes,...
Sunday Reading
...to describe their lifestyles and health conditions" so you can predict when they'll die . Are high cell phone costs preserving marriage in the US? Related: slow internet ==> less...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.12.12
...get a dry finish. Kiddie pedicure: Woman kidnaps goat from San Diego petting zoo, returns it with hot pink pedicure. Magic at your feeet: Virginia Postrel interviews Manolo the Shoeblogger...
Grooming Style
A conversation on how the Alt Lit scene’s documentation of sexual violence became a style of supposed sincerity
Misery Loves Company
In László Krasznahorkai’s latest work, the apocalypse has arrived and we’re living in it.
Precarious Verse
...trunk wouldn't die." During the course of his captivity he "dented the trunk's tight lid," "pounded the wheel wells with a tire iron" and just generally "banged on and on."...
Prescription Strike
...initiatives into a single operation bent on their demise, every health worker a potential spy. Meanwhile, Pakistani children die of polio and Americans ask, “Why do Pakistanis hate us? We’re...