Testing
...them. As a high school cheater, Lauren O’Neal recounts, sharing answers felt like solidarity. Cheating provided a precious moment of support — which was manifestly absent from teachers who imposed...
Daddy
...waits against the hateful desire to despise a black father in a world designed to kill him. Under Reaganite conservatism, the 80s were peak dad, inspiring our cover–the spirit of...
On Rage and Swagger
...There are things that make us enraged, above all ways of death: when police kill unarmed teenagers, when states murder behind the veil of law, when bands of racists go...
No Dignity, No Doubt
...Before the killing begins, they go on the radio to call you a cockroach, they come with the clippers to shave your hair, they parade you on the streets to...
Do yoga and vote
...it to become coal and vote Kill time and vote Lock the doors of a Bikram studio from the outside and giggle and vote Strip time's carcass for parts and...
Miéville's Anticlimaxes
...an event remembered as the “godsquabble.” These faithful bureaucrats have been keeping records of the costs of the railsea, and nearly kill Sham when he reveals that he hasn't come...
Craven Family Values
...concerns. Artists who abide by them with some degree of competency and visibility will eventually bring about some critical valuation of the works they have produced. Follow the rule about...
A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye
a dispatch from Dahye, published in collaboration with the New York War Crimes
Love, Mystery, and Irrationality
...“Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, would kill everybody on earth in order to gain Cathy, but he would never think of saying that murder is reasonable or theoretically defensible. He would...
Vol. 18 Editors' Note: Family Planning
...of its infant members is to kill it.” Thus wrote Margaret Sanger, the mother of birth control and founder of Planned Parenthood, in a 1922 pamphlet entitled “The Woman Rebel.”...
Sunday Reading
...stole the education from its black children "Even if the police don’t kill me, a lifetime of preparing for them to just might." Kitabet: Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry...
Fan Fiction
...engage culture from within. Our authors use fiction to explode boundaries. The criticism is coming from inside the house. In 1969, three female students at Freie Universität in Berlin disturbed...
Policing the Troubles
...Direct Action Against Drugs (ostensibly set up to rid the community of drug dealers; in practice a pretense for killing them) and you have a veneer of community policing that,...
America is Hungry, Let's Eat
...the community, might turn out to innovate the future. After all, who is it that cleared the American frontier of its native detritus, making it possible for us to create...
Sunday Reading
...prison strikes in US history A growing grassroots movement in Mexico is resisting the US-backed drug war "'We’re going to kill all of you,' the [police] officers warned." Aaron Cantú:...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 64: Fan Fiction
Fan fiction is and always has been an act of care, which is to say, a genuine kind of criticism.