The Thick Blue Line
...out and kill now. He was so innocent. It just isn’t fair at all.” Ron Thomas joined her in saying that the defense “lied… continuously” about the character of his...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
Police Mortality
...extracted hundreds of scenes. Many are hilarious out of context, in which police are killed, kill, or otherwise act piggish. Impressively, the clips communicate well enough with one another to...
Sunday Reading
...feats, and part of what fascinated me was the ease with which they went in and out of it" long list of good art tumblrs pizza-compass.com Bint Battuta: A veritable...
"Dangerous" Indeed: Simon & Schuster Imprint Publishing Book by White Supremacist
...ground in our country by the minute. White supremacy kills people, and it will kill more people in the coming years. This isn't about me just not liking what Yiannopoulos...
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
...sex only a little kinky. Can I go now? If I’m not back soon they’ll kill him. --Witness #83 Words fail me. I do not know how to speak of...
Blogging the Caine Prize 2012
...(drop me a line if you want to take part: aaron A@T thenewinquiry DO.T com). Drum roll! The 2012 shortlist (these are links to full pdfs of the stories): May...
Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome Charyn
...Jerome Charyn and Michael Seidenberg in conversation at Brazenhead Books. Introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Part 1: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/03/CharynMichaelFinalpt1.mp3|titles=Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome Charyn Part 1] Part 2: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/03/JandMfullpt2_1-2.mp3|titles=Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome...