Paid-members only I'd like to go home now Squid Game, AI, A Long December, treadmills, and future historians
Paid-members only A relentless pursuit of profit Why are reviews of Squid Game season two overlooking capitalism?
How can I love someone I don’t even know? After 34 years, the Internet gave me a sister I’d never known.
Every day I learn of a new horror of the American healthcare system This piece was published in my book Lockdown in Hell World. It’s March and it’s sunny and quiet in my old neighborhood. Too quiet except for the birds. It feels like there’s a blizzard outside that you can’t see. Toward the end of February which is
Paid-members only As transgender as I have been my whole life Patrick Kuklinski returns to write about the looming threat trans people face under the incoming Trump administration. They previously wrote about the “Don’t Say Climate Change” bill in Florida and one of the many recent assaults on the rights and dignity of trans people there. It smelled like deathYou
Paid-members only She may as well be talking about the whole world I really like today's essay and I think you will too! Corey Atad writes about the 1995 David Fincher film Se7en, the fraught decision to have children or not in times like these, and whether the world is still worth fighting for. "It’s said that Fincher
Image captured October 2019 This story appears in my book A Creature Wanting Form. It was a fall day when the map car drove down our old street because the tree in the little park that you loved to post pictures of every year is there in its full striking orange on the way
1,341 years imprisoned for crimes they did not commit Today Andrew Quemere of The Mass Dump – a great newsletter for people concerned about criminal justice and government transparency in Massachusetts – reports on a wrongfully convicted man who spent over 25 years in prison after a notoriously corrupt Boston cop helped put him there, and efforts to change the laws
Adding Insult to Wrongful Incarceration Massachusetts limits compensation for victims of wrongful convictions to $1 million. Advocates want to change that—but some lawmakers are seeking a compromise that would put more people behind bars.
