Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
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...
No, That Wasn’t Our Happiness
...the working-class waitress Susan Sarandon screams, “Words like that could kill a person if you don’t mean it,” after James Spader, who plays her younger yuppie lover, tells her he’s...
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...
Sins of the Father
...cigars, sports cars, and being boss. From the beginning of Breaking Bad, Walt’s masculinity is challenged. Teaching high school (a common symbol of impotence in TV shows and film) insults...
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...
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...
Search teams with ampliation
...Four problems with this: a) Women rarely use guns to kill themselves. b) I have never heard of a nurse shooting herself. c) I have talked to four of the...
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...
Found Poetry
...pains to spare them It will be hard, complicated, and costly, controversial but fabulous, To spare them isn’t trying to kill civilians poised. It’s taking A Tough Response at the...
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...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...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 death...
Tiktok LLM
Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.
The Judge From Central Casting
...to be an individual. Because Kavanaugh has tried to be everything to everyone, this man his advocates call “exceptional” is anything but; he is almost implausibly replaceable. Kavanaugh clones abound:...
Margot, Not at the Wedding
...plot, and tried to annul her dangerous sexuality by reconstituting it as love of the first man, La Mole, who really tempted her. (See also, among others: Princess Di.) The...
Editors' Note, Vol. 35: Sick
...live partly outside of measure, and often makes them crazy too. Another kind of crazy-making death-in-life is is living with the knowledge that you have tried to kill yourself, as...