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...
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...
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...
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...
Crazy in Love
...forms of meaning will be allowed to disperse freely. The term schizo-culture is not meant to refer to the actual disease, which renders people unglamorously confused and incapable of basic...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...