Jean-Patrick Manchette produced violence with an almost choreographed agility. Contributor Tagline: Chris R. Morgan has previously written for VICE, Bookforum, The Awl, Open Letters Monthly, and This Recording. He lives in New Jersey and publishes a zine called Biopsy.
Ben Lerner’s 10:04 — bighearted, meticulously constructed achievement.
The trial of Chelsea Manning, and the media’s silence around it, is telling both about the way journalism works today, and the nature of the campaign against whistleblowers.
Rachel Monroe discusses a book on amateur sleuthing by Deborah Halber.
Intimate details of the people who cared for the 18.5 million wounded in World War I.
What is the future of libraries?
Linda Williams argues that the strength of "The Wire" lies not in its commitment to Dickensian narrative or Greek tragedy, but its melodrama.
Digital Cosmopolitanism and the Commercial Web
The story of a Franciscan monk who pioneered what we now call “California.”
Ira Wells on William Vollmann
The Supreme Court has made marriage equality the norm, but not the way anyone thought they might.