…He soon learns, however, that the real criminals are in the executive suites. The film’s landscape is a jumble of generic places that can be found in any deindustrializing metropolitan…
https://www.guernicamag.com/austerity-economics-is-like-a-kick-in-the-groin/
…the increasing “pornification” of culture, pointing to the rise in pubic hair removal as an example of trends in pornography reaching the broader public. She believes the rise in internet…
https://www.guernicamag.com/kirsten-oregan-labiaplasty-part-ii/
…became in the postwar years part of a social safety net for returning Japanese. My parents moved into the church parsonage, located about a mile and a half from the…
…my Palestinian family’s connection to Italy, and to seek out relatives I had recently discovered were living in Venice. I am from a deeply-rooted Bethlehem family, with links to all…
…also translated work by Brazilian writers such as Hilda Hilst and the nineteenth-century writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, among others. Hilst, like Noll, was tireless in her attempt to…
https://www.guernicamag.com/adam-morris-quiet-creature-on-the-corner/
…pick up their monthly packet of birth control pills at their local pharmacy, to name just a few. The proposal very cleverly speaks to two main policy objectives of the…
…existed alongside plants, algae, and cyanobacteria fixing carbon out of the air into sugars. But then human animals realized the wealth of carbon our planet contained. Coal. Natural gas. Petroleum….
https://www.guernicamag.com/fitness-how-the-climate-killed-my-children/
…of China”, Mark Elvin finds a direct link between the disappearance of elephants in Chinese territory 3,000 years ago and the economical development and deforestation in these pre-modern times. For…
https://www.guernicamag.com/mary-wang-seeing-through-the-fog/
…family portrait and a thought experiment, a character study of often epic, planetary scales. “Each star is a living text,” Liu writes in his story “The Bookmaking Habits of Select…
…to link my limbs to the bar as I swung, spun, turned, let go, and caught it again. When I wrapped myself around the bar, the chalk rubbed off into…
…in the context of New York’s downtown scene during the late 1970s and 80s, where the cut-and-paste spirit of Dada prevailed in its social relations as in its modes of…
…the fourth estate, for it made certain ideas more profitable without making other types less. Yet once electronic cut-and-paste came into play, the press release and similar content subsidies proliferated….
…baskets of cowry shells, Venetian glass beads, or lengths of patterned cloth? “He is a good worker,” the old man urged. “If you take him to America and get him…
https://www.guernicamag.com/emily-raboteau-daughters-of-obama/
…over Burma, watered-down rice gruel or soup has become the normal meal, eaten twice a day with some vegetables and fish paste if you’re lucky. Nonetheless, with its lust for…
Philip C. Winslow Angola’s decades-long terror often was called “the worst war in the world.” The civil war left as many as 1.5 million people dead and millions…
…of the American Southwest. Helen joined him the next morning, and, by the end of a few feverish days, the two of them had hauled the remains of nineteen individuals…
…resources—elements that link to health in surprising ways. The cornerstone of Fine’s own healthcare strategy is the neighborhood health station, a facility that aims to provide almost all the care…
https://www.guernicamag.com/dr-michael-fine-capitalism-bad-health/
…companies from generic competition for 12 years after their drugs go to market, which is guaranteed to keep prices sky high. Meanwhile, legislation expected from the Senate Finance committee won’t…
…war state, that it garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war somewhere at any moment. Similarly, we’ve become used to the…
…arrangement with Alternet.Org. Dr. Don Huber did not seek fame when he quietly penned a confidential letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack in January of this year, warning Vilsack…