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Month: October 2023
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Telling the Truth About Mexico, and Dying for It – The New York Times
Who Hired the Hitmen to Silence Zitácuaro?
In one small Mexican city, journalists who tried to expose cartel violence and government corruption became swept up in the murders devouring the country.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/magazine/mexican-journalists-assassinations.html
But the man on the other end spoke in a way that was instantly familiar. Linares had come to know that pitched, menacing tone from years of run-ins with every kind of Mexican gangster.
“This is Commander Eagle,” the voice said. “I’m from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.”
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How the AR-15 Became an American Brand | The New Yorker
How the AR-15 Became an American Brand
The rifle is a consumer product to which advertisers successfully attached an identity—one that has translated to a particularly intractable politics.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-the-ar-15-became-an-american-brand
Watching the video last summer, I couldn’t help recalling, given Aldean’s association with a mass shooting, that one thing that was tried in a small town in recent American history was the massacre that killed nineteen children in Uvalde, Texas, last year; that law enforcement in that small town waited in the halls for an hour without confronting the shooter; that the small town’s only pediatrician later testified to Congress about identifying the dead by the cartoons on their clothes because their bodies were too damaged. Considered in this light, “Try That in a Small Town” becomes an allegory about posturing over perceived threats to national integrity while ignoring the lived reality of a horror too disturbing to mediate.
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Book Review: ‘Monica,’ by Daniel Clowes – The New York Times
Daniel Clowes Dreams of the Apocalypse
His new graphic novel, “Monica,” is a mother-daughter tale steeped in counterculture and cataclysm.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/books/review/daniel-clowes-monica.html
What happens next is the weirdest, wildest thing in this book — and that’s saying something.
