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Good Neighbors
After Claire learned that they’d found a stockpile of weapons in the basement and neo-Nazi propaganda, which the father had been spreading online, Claire could not sleep. She lay in bed, her head beneath the window overlooking their teenage neighbor’s…
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“Waking is the anesthetic: “Oh Oblivion” by Robert Krut
The suburban home, long a reliable visual indicator of simmering American darkness just beyond the picket-fence, from David Lynch’s free-associative visions to Freddy Krueger’s nocturnal abductions in A Nightmare on Elm Street, has been publicly tried and found not guilty.
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Candid Cameras: “You Can See Everything” and “Primetime”
A camera has always afforded its user a certain kind of license—not just to solicit the attention of others or enter through otherwise closed doors, but to step outside of the flow of “real life” and so transform it.
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Three Poems
when my brother died, debt collectors got 2gethr& organized nightly firepits in my yard- the citibank ppl &the barclays & chase ppl passed out marshmallows &sticks w/whittled tips.
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The Deceit of Ceasing Fire
As with all past ceasefires, Israel has reverted to the slow, systematic strangulation of the Gaza Strip, and mired any talk of aid and reconstruction in endless bureaucracy.
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Television Is the Subconscious of the Universe: A Conversation with Jane Schoenbrun
I’m suspicious of something that is metastasizing in our society and in our culture, this addiction to screens and to narrative. It’s a way of being trapped in an increasingly unstable and nonsensical neoliberal reality. That tension is at the…
