True crime has a reputation for being trashy, but a recent renaissance has it tipping into advocacy.
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Did We Learn Nothing From the 2008 Crisis?
The continuation of the false narrative of what caused the 2008 financial collapse is alarming.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Irvine Welsh on Brexit, Existential Panic, and His Latest ‘Trainspotting’ Sequel
“The books from ‘Trainspotting’ onwards have been about deindustrialization … the cruel existential panic that we feel, in the sense that we don’t really know what we’re here for anymore.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Wrapping the Sunday Paper for the Last Time
As a teen in Cincinnati in the 90s, Andrew Bockhold hated having to give up much of each weekend to help his father out with his paper route. In this personal essay, he looks back with new appreciation for a business than helped his family survive, before it was shut down.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Wrapping the Sunday Paper For the Last Time
Andrew Bockhold finds a new appreciation for the family newspaper route he hated working as a kid, before it was shut down.
Posted inNonfiction
United States of Conspiracy: An Interview with Anna Merlan
“Most people in America believe in one conspiracy to some extent, but the far end of the pool … is this desire to show that you really do reject all knowable authority.”
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Regarding the Interpretation of Others
When attempting to write a review of the official Susan Sontag biography, our reviewer finds himself on shaky ground after learning new information about the author.
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Becoming Danish
“To be Danish is to not be afraid of saying exactly what is happening at any moment, with elegance and wit.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Science & Nature, Story
At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side
Solarpunk, a new genre of science fiction, demands radical optimism of its writers and readers. It takes the apocalypse as given, but doesn’t assume the worst of people living through it.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Wrapping the Sunday Paper For the Last Time
Andrew Bockhold finds a new appreciation for the family newspaper route he hated working as a kid, before it was shut down.
