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
...Moreland: So, you're my eyeball witness, huh? [Omar nods] So, why'd you step up on this? Omar: Bird triflin', basically. Kill an everyday workin' man and all. I mean, I...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dead and Going to Die
...Powell was to kill the secretary of state, and their co-conspirator, George Atzerodt, was to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson. Atzerodt failed to attempt the assassination altogether. Powell followed through...
Found Poetry
...to take over Gaza temporarily, forever Israel, unlike Hamas, will be hard Israel, unlike Hamas, isn’t trying to kill civilians. Missile at Beachside Gaza Cafe Finds Patrons Poised It’s taking...
Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
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...
Incalculable Loss
...Michael Hayden, “we kill people based on metadata.” Now that digital activity is a basis for state violence, the “virtual” and the “flesh” are no longer separate zones. Through mass...
Cold Cases
...photo by robert kowal Craigslist sex work doesn't kill people; people kill people Shannan Gilbert was out on an escorting call in Oak Beach, Long Island, in the...
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...
Sins of the Father
...am an extremely overqualified high school chemistry teacher, and within 18 months I will be dead. And you ask me why I ran?” Many men would have run—to alcohol, to...
Some observations on Taiye Selasi's "Driver"
...going to kill my employers” is the second. Instead, the protagonist—Webster, a formerly college-bound young man whose ambitions were halted by his father’s illness, and who has become a driver...