Les Saignantes @ The Morbid Anatomy Museum
...and nightlife is dominated by the exclusive wakes of Very Important People. When two young women, Majolie and Chouchou, kill a senior politician, they make a plan to wrest power...
You and Mark Aren't Friends
...become an international center of outrage once it becomes clear that the company’s innovations, as is so often the case, are destined to kill your privacy. Now Facebook has made...
Vol. 76 Editors’ Note: Assets
Just how much?
On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
That sisterhood. In that one life. Destroy one another.
...they were "ready for trial." except for procedural reasons the case was dismissed, and now the traffickers were plotting to kill him. so when an airplane crashed near buffalo, the...
In Praise of Fake Reviews
...advertisements consist of paid (“inauthentic”) endorsements, and there are now many places where advertisement and “authentic” comment are mixed up (Twitter streams, Facebook feeds). The claim that “false” endorsements on...
Introduction
...three things of each piece I commissioned for this supplement. That it be dangerous. That it be necessary. That it be true. I wanted to create a platform for transgressive...
Body Mass Index
...from its heroine or its audience the typical range of video-game tasks. Unlike the action-movie or war-game hero, Bullock has nothing to shoot and no one to kill. Her task,...
Transcript on a Face
...being presented as a deadly force option while he was hitting me in the face Wilson's characterization of the community surrounding the killing scene (what the prosecution called "folks that...
Anatomy of a Dissection
...doesn’t belong there, so she tries to kill it, but only succeeds in cracking its shell. The injured roach sits in front of her with crumpling antennae and pus oozing...
Blogs Round Up
...the idea that if we got rid of the objects themselves, the desire for them, the need for them, and the culture that is built around them and makes them...
Sunday Reading
...Life in Kerala, India (1937) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina "Like numerous other aspects of modernity, uniforms first penetrated Turkish culture through the military" Criminality and Colonial...
Editors' Note: Vol. 43: The Daddy Issue
...mother who 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...
Spring Break Forever
...no Samanthas, no Charlottes, no Mirandas Sarah Nicole Prickett Bikini, Kill Don't hate the slayer, hate the game Ayesha A. Siddiqi Booty Camp A former KIDS kid laments bad girl...
Diner Forty Niner
...that Bruff contemplated, they did commit other crimes, jumping claims, stealing crops, looting homes, ransacking farms, destroying roads, and killing livestock when it suited them. Wherever they went they left...
Death and the Maiden
...To move beyond the death drive would not restore an earlier state of things but kill the present one, including its division of life into two distinct genders. “Splintered fragments...