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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Syria and the Left: A Call to Arms
...camps, while the remaining 90 percent have tried to assimilate in urban, peri-urban and rural areas. This does not include the scores of unregistered refugees. While Turkey hosts roughly half...
"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...