Operation Kill Everybody
The war on drugs is a politics of extermination.
Publication
The war on drugs is a politics of extermination.
With a narrative like this, the facts didn’t stand a chance.
Nihilism has become the cultural psychology of the young and downwardly mobile.
If only imperialism could be worked out through breath work.
Resistance to the FIFA World Cup transcends borders.
All that work would require human labor—a lot of it.
William T. Vollmann charts the rise, ruin, and refashioning of America.
“Gold shines like an angel, but she’s dense as a bitch.”
“There’s a now, a was, and a gonna be."
What we need is not isolationism but solidarity.
Exploring the perils of intercountry adoption.
Missouri Williams’s hall of mirrors.
It is not just a hobby—it verges on a way of life.
A conversation with Xiao Hai.
Do I seem real?
We must sweep leftovers of any kind off the bargaining table.
It’s a losing game to be understood by cis people.
Tracing the physics of incarceration.
Bringing women into the military service academy system.
Plotlessness is political.
Disneyland taught Americans how to embrace the technologies that undergird our lives.
What comes after Asian American literature?
Freezing the rent only alleviates tension on one side of the equation.
The horizon is a prison for those who starve.
You’re getting away with something too.
Is a wholesale retreat from the Palos Verdes Peninsula in order?
Who owns the truth of family history?
The only thing that can be preserved is what we hold onto past the point of reason.
Oligarchy ruins everything, even Brahms’s First Symphony.
Sensitivity to the downtrodden informs the work collected in the new edition of Jim Thompson’s oeuvre.
“I am a big, bright, shining star!”
This offers itself as revelation.
Lillian Bassman finally gets her due.
In Ukraine, the corporate consolidation of farmland poses a number of risks.
Kluge always wanted to give people, and the principles to which people try to be faithful, some extra lift.
"The Comeback" is by no means happy to be here.
Two books revisit the Bernie Goetz shooting.
“Ain’t that so? You never never know.”
Love is the law, love under will.
In the influencer novel, the work is the pain.
The struggle between the White House and Anthropic raises public questions of private power.
Radicalized by the betrayal of a meritocratic promise.
Age verification laws harm sex workers.
Naming an emergency while protecting the status quo.
Nothing is inevitable about the future of AI.
Don’t get me wrong. I also want to kill you.
We need not distract from known horrors with conspiracism.
Even as the stories gets dark, Jaime Hernandez’s linework maintains a tangible lust for life.
Freedom and control on the contemporary China internet.
The United States is in too much of a groove to break away.