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The story of her father’s death ran in newspapers from New York to Los Angeles, detailing how a small band of men killed him, and how a mob mutilated his corpse. They called it a spectacle lynching, and historians say it was perhaps the worst act of torture and execution in 20th century America. The killing became Florida’s shame. President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew her father’s name.

Claude Neal.

“Spectacle: The lynching of Claude Neal.” — Ben Montgomery, St. Petersburg Times

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New York didn’t invent the apartment. Shopkeepers in ancient Rome lived above the store, Chinese clans crowded into multistory circular tulou, and sixteenth-century Yemenites lived in the mud-brick skyscrapers of Shibam. But New York re-invented the apartment many times over, developing the airborne slice of real estate into a symbol of exquisite urbanity. Sure, we still have our brownstones and our townhouses, but in the popular imagination today’s New Yorker occupies a glassed-in aerie, a shared walk-up, a rambling prewar with walls thickened by layers of paint, or a pristine white loft.

Published: Apr 4, 2011
Length: 15 minutes (3,776 words)

Hollywood Shadows: A Cure for Blocked Screenwriters

Hollywood Shadows: A Cure for Blocked Screenwriters

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The [New York] Times article was entitled, “Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town,” as if the victim in question was the town itself. James McKinley Jr., the article’s author, focused on how the men’s lives would be changed forever, how the town was being ripped apart, how those poor boys might never be able to return to school. There was discussion of how the eleven-year-old girl, the child, dressed like a twenty-year-old, implying that there is a realm of possibility where a woman can “ask for it” and that it’s somehow understandable that eighteen men would rape a child.

Roxane Gay, The Careless Language of Sexual Violence

What I meant to say.

The Great Afghan Bank Heist

The Great Afghan Bank Heist

Travis the Menace

Travis the Menace

Does Football Have a Future? The NFL and the Concussion Crisis

Does Football Have a Future? The NFL and the Concussion Crisis

The History of the Glock in America—and What Happened To Our Conversation About Gun Laws

The History of the Glock in America—and What Happened To Our Conversation About Gun Laws

Night-Shifting For the Hip Fleet

Night-Shifting For the Hip Fleet

Personal History: Chicago Christmas, 1984

Personal History: Chicago Christmas, 1984