Here, at long last, on May 19th, was evidence that the acute part of the crisis was over. There were still two refrigerated truck morgues outside of my local hospital — a number that has since declined to a still-unsettling total of one — and some 78 New York City…
Tekashi 6ix9ine is making a cynical bet on himself, and on us. The Brooklyn-born 24-year-old rapper built his career on infamy, outrageousness, face tattoos, a frisson of criminality, actual criminality, and yelling. After a raft of legal troubles, culminating in his snitching on various members of a Bloods-affiliated criminal enterprise…
Atef Abu Saif had one of the formative experiences of his literary career in an Israeli jail in 1991. It was Ramadan, and the other prisoners asked Abu Saif, then in his early twenties, to compose a story for a breakfast. During the first Palestinian intifada, in the late 1980s…
