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...
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...
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...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...enviable of all, for he neither truly lives nor manages to kill himself. These difficulties only multiply when the suicide happens to be a writer. Suicide itself may be a...
It's so hard to know what role, if any.
...dead, and we know they are Muslim students because their identity is knowable. Just look at them! It’s obvious. It's a fact. What “compelled” the accused to kill them? I’m...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Amniotechnics
...life tried liquidly to become. Much has been written on the view of pregnancy, in antiquity, as a dutiful woman’s self-sacrificing encounter with death. To be pregnant was famously conceptualized...
"Let Loose Your Tongue"
...she first came across this novel? Elisabeth Jaquette (Lissie): I found it through the tried and true method of haranguing people for book recommendations. I was studying at CASA at...
Tiktok LLM
Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.
Enigma Deviations
...intelligence services tried to de-risk themselves by expelling “perverts” in Turing’s time. A Foucauldian story could be told about the transition from a mode of governance that compelled self-transparent subjects...
The Revolution that Wasn't
...capturing the scene behind him. The gas clouds soon enveloped him when I tried to talk to him, and, dazed by inhalation, I had to help him off the front...
London, Underground
...in a city that has achieved worldwide fame for being perpetually on the edge of sinking into its own filth. Lots of people have tried to clean up this city,...
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:...