Joyce Carol Oates on the literally toxic origins of serial killers

The New York Review of Books

Death in the Air | Joyce Carol Oates

In Murderland, Caroline Fraser traces the correlations between rapacious industrial pollution and sadistic serial killers.

David Shulman on the second Nakba, now in full gear in the West Bank

The New York Review of Books

Netanyahu’s War | David Shulman

Engineering a second Nakba and annexing the occupied territories are integral parts of Netanyahu’s war against the State of Israel’s democratic...

“The simple willingness to be dishonorable destabilizes everything American power affects, instilling anxiety on every side…. Instability, shrewdly managed, is a great multiplier of power.” —Marilynne Robinson

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Notes from an Occupation | Marilynne Robinson

America is an occupied country, ruled by partisans hostile to democracy.