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What the Chaos in Hospitals Is Doing to Doctors
The ethical burdens of the ICU during Covid.
In Harm's Way
How cars have become weapons at protests, and why it is likely to continue.
Living Amid Fear and Oppression in Xinjiang
My wife is not a terrorist.
Excerpts from 'Bones in the Desert'
From the Translator’s Note:
Just over two weeks ago, on April 3, the renowned Mexican writer and investigative journalist Sergio González Rodríguez unexpectedly passed away from a heart attack at age 67. [His book] Bones in the Desert is a far-reaching investigation into the still-unsolved murders of hundreds of women and girls in the communities surrounding Mexico’s Ciudad Júarez, on the US border with El Paso, Texas. In the years since its publication in 2002, Bones in the Desert has left an indelible imprint on the modern literature of the Americas, both through its own merits and its foundational influence on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. In crafting a fictionalized version of Ciudad Júarez, Bolaño collaborated directly with González Rodríguez, relying on him for substantial “technical help” in answering questions about the nature of the murders, and eventually including him as a character in the novel.
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The Twilight Zone
An excess of people and an excess of desert.
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No Longer a Girl
The hallmarks that would come to characterize the official narrative surrounding the serial murders were already being established.
The Deadliest Place In Mexico
Murder in the Juarez Valley:
A few weeks after Saul Reyes and his family fled Mexico, I drove to an immigrant shelter in downtown El Paso to see him. As the former city secretary of Guadalupe, Saul had once been in charge of recording the births and deaths of everyone in his hometown. He’d taken it upon himself now to collect every single name of those who had died or disappeared in Guadalupe since the killing began in 2008. Through media reports and meetings with the many valley exiles now living in Texas, Saul had compiled a list of the town’s dead and disappeared. Showing me the book, he turned page after page of names. So far he had counted 180 dead, 26 disappeared, and eight unknown bodies dumped in his small town of 3,000 people. “There are a lot more, but these are the ones I’ve been able to collect,” he said. In his careful, spidery script, he had written on one page the names of his six family members.
The Girl in the Window
A profoundly neglected 6-year-old gets a new home.
Reelin’ in the Years
Reconsidering Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando.
Bill Clinton in BubbaLand
At home, Arkansas’s favorite son can do no wrong.
In Hollywood
On Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, screenwriters.
Predator in the Ranks
Is a Marine responsible for a series of violent attacks against women?
The Greatest Fake-Art Scam in History?
How a couple made millions on uncanny forgeries.
On the Lam in Lebanon
The Syrian civil war crosses into Lebanon.
In the Eye of the Whirlpool
Searching for a mysterious whirpool on an obscure map.
The Vulgarian in the Choir Loft
An asshole learns to sing.
Tangled Up in Blue
The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda’s gay son.
In the Crosshairs
On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who took his life.
Lou Reed: A Deaf Mute in a Telephone Booth
The rock critic confronts his favorite musician.
Displaced in the D.R.
A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.
Life and Death in a Troubled Teen Boot Camp
A reckless billion-dollar industry that occasionally kills.
Life and Death in the App Store
Middle class apps struggle to survive.
Blood in the Sand
Investigating the murder of a Costa Rican conservationist.
In The Name Of Love
How “Do What You Love” devalues actual work.
Sinners in the Hands
A small Texas town suddenly finds it’s the home of a possible cult.
A Boy Grew In Brooklyn
Memories of the old neighborhood, before everything changed.
