Month: October 2023
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Telling the Truth About Mexico, and Dying for It – The New York Times
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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,…
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How the AR-15 Became an American Brand | The New Yorker
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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…
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Book Review: ‘Monica,’ by Daniel Clowes – The New York Times
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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.