Cold Cases
...was the combination of Oak Beach’s insularity, geographic diversity, and law enforcement apathy that let these women stay missing for so long. Serial killers have said they targeted prostitutes because...
No Man’s Land
...border zone that could put the two superpowers into direct confrontation. Frustrated by the anomalous legal nature of the Triangle, the West Berlin police were reduced to playing loud music,...
Fear of a Muslim Planet
...front, Ferrigno mines a rich vein of unease that surfaces in both liberal-popular and left-intellectual culture. Though ultimately — the trilogy argues — left and right fears are branches of...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...not kill themselves more often than other professionals. Statistically speaking, doctors have the highest suicide rates. Nonetheless, because of their special relationship with language, writers have a special relationship to...
Crazy in Love
...forms of meaning will be allowed to disperse freely. The term schizo-culture is not meant to refer to the actual disease, which renders people unglamorously confused and incapable of basic...
Un(der)known Writers: Silvia Federici
...(circa 1010), after the ritual question– "Have you done what some women are accustomed to do when they fornicate and wish to kill their offspring, act with their maleficia, and...
Which Briefcase Full of Money Are You?
...leave all your previous owners murderously jealous, willing to chase you across the country and kill everyone you've come into contact with. You're the femme fatale of briefcases, a bad...
I'm With Stupid
...was Lispector’s last work, written in 1977, just before she was diagnosed with the ovarian cancer that would kill her shortly after the book’s publication. Lispector was born in Ukraine...
Sunday Reading
...orthodoxy among seismologists is that earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings kill people.” Remembering the Armenian Genocide Speech for the Armenian Genocide Centennial Commemoration in Istanbul The Epic of a Genocide...
Objects of Derision
...harassing, jailing, and killing of that community by the police, even if occasionally “excessive,” is merely a fact of “management” of the basic social anger that already is. Needless to...
Fuck Forever and Never Die
...secret counsel through some pivotal expository missions, the story offers an affecting dilemma when another faction asks you to kill him. The featherless old bird, it turns out, had been...
Prescription Strike
...It isn’t so surprising, then, that medicine even tangentially related to the U.S. is often assumed to be yet another American effort to kill Muslims. At a recent conference on...
It's so hard to know what role, if any.
...been confirmed that he left these comments) that are apparently threats to kill people based on their religion. None of this has been confirmed; none of it is objective fact....
Bad Faith
...“August 4, 2014,” an excerpt from They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, a recently published collection of essays by Hanif Abdurraqib, a quotidian telling of an airplane journey...
Incalculable Loss
...from which algorithms automatically generate kill lists made up of nodes that deviate from the cluster of normal activity patterns. Algorithmic necropower defers the act of killing and disperses complicity....
Editors’ Note, Vol. 66: Bad Faith
...“August 4, 2014,” an excerpt from They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, a recently published collection of essays by Hanif Abdurraqib, a quotidian telling of an airplane journey...