Sickness Unto Death
...but American society at large. Ours is a culture that pushes to see the eldest members of our families safe and secure above all else. We don’t see that the...
Desecration Hardware (Prelude: The Montpellier Armoire)
...the doors themselves, the silent violence of the chipping, the queer burnishing, almost as if trying to gain a grip on what could not be... We knew. Someone had tried...
Working Beauty
...subjects, and certainly not the students. If she tried, she’d be terminated or worse: Clara threatens her with vague but menacing consequences if she misbehaves. And what does the doctor...
Tracing Ana
...apartment window under what can only be referred to as suspicious circumstances. Her husband, heralded artist Carl Andre, was tried and ultimately acquitted of murder, earning him a new sobriquet:...
Not Your Friend: Dissensus and the Police
...nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means...
Fucking Like a Housewife
From On Becoming Undone
Open Office Plan
In an office tower belonging to a new-media company in lower Manhattan, employees live, sleep, advertise products, and occasionally write content, together. And they aren't allowed to leave.
For the Win: Failure!
...in: when corporate interests come into conflict with a democratically elected president, corporations will win, every time. After all, when Jimmy Carter tried to create a sensible energy policy, oil...
Where the Fire's Still Burning
...police force or the military was held responsible for not interfering. Thirty-three people were tried and convicted of 'attempting to destroy constitutional order' and given death penalties, which were converted...
Marginal Returns
...Martin and Bill Duke are on the underemployment line. The studio tried to muscle both movies into the conversation late in the year, but neither quite got there in the...
You Make Me Swoon
An edited excerpt from We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
Dumb Computers, Smart Cops
...and, after ordering it to disperse, tried to force the issue by beating the crowd with what are euphemistically called batons but in practice tend to break ribs and bruise...
The Last Witch Hunter
...the two halves of his personality, the devout and the unconventional. These impulses had once been distinctly at odds, but as the landscape around him changed, and modern culture began...
Dark Pages
...depraved monster; or 3) the diaries are authentic, but Casement’s public deeds outweigh his private indiscretions. (This last position was taken, among others, by Peter Singleton-Gates, who tried to publish...
The "Man's Woman," the "Woman's Woman," and Other Apocryphal Creatures
...but mostly because she’d already tried on the vixen persona in her earlier years and found it wanting (Poison Ivy, anyone?). So, sure, she’s a woman’s woman. I recalled this...
Desecration Hardware, 3 (The Trestle Salvaged Table in Salvaged Black Finish)
...probably false fireplace, where F. was standing. Cuba, she said. What? The photo, the one T. tried to escape through. It’s Cuba, I recognize it. I don’t know how, but...