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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Gotta Have a Code
...Donnie would live forever). When I asked for his email, he quickly replied, ‘It's donnell loves fran at [...] dot com.' Real recognizes real, as he used to say....
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...
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:...
An exemplary revolt
...people revolt, they know their objectives: at Battipaglia, they didn't bring petitions to the prefect, but they tried to set fire to the town hall and devastated the tax collector's;...
What It Takes to Build Your Credit: "Urban Zoning," by Billy Kahora, Week Two of Blogging the Caine
...to observe that Stephen has done a lot of the work in framing this story that I would have tried to do, and which I would have done much less...
0D30
...dies when she bakes a cake, when she takes the wrong kind of pleasure in her job; Maya wins for her joylessness, but her double—who tried to encourage her to...
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...
Dinner with Caligula
...consequence, sold, sexually and physically abused. At the feast of Trimalchio, a young boy dropped a goblet. Trimalchio looked at him and said: “Hey, clumsy, go and kill yourself.” But...