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...
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...
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...
Daughters Have Their Own Agenda
...by her waiting and especially by her waiting for a cheater, a no-good, and also some light vision of universal progress, both the degrader and carrier of culture. In an...
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...
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...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...both, of one through the other and back again: suicide has a great deal in common with literature. Though the number of famous writer-suicides is staggering, writers do not kill...
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...
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...
The Sovereign Double-Standard
...Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons is particularly distinct from all the other war crimes it has been committing, now, for over two years; if you kill with gas, the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...