The Disaster Store
…missed me too much—she is gone, again. I cannot see her anywhere, not within the chain-link enclosure nor on the sidewalk outside it. The only hint is the chain-link gate…
…missed me too much—she is gone, again. I cannot see her anywhere, not within the chain-link enclosure nor on the sidewalk outside it. The only hint is the chain-link gate…
…Think of this as basic math for Americans. (All figures cited below are linked to their sources. If a figure has no link, just click on the nearest previous link.)…
…hangars and chain-link fencing. Her father had a passing interest in astronomy, the woman explains—or perhaps Greek mythology—and so they’d named her “Cassiopeia.” “It’s a constellation,” the woman says, pointing…
…translated as “dialogue,” but the translation would be “counter-talk.” Basically, I want to have communication with government where people and government are equal counterparts. That peaceful demand 23 years ago…
https://www.guernicamag.com/wuer-kaixi-returning-home-or-not/
From the cover of the new edition to The Bloody Chamber, originally released in 1979. By Kelly Link From The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter,…
https://www.guernicamag.com/kelly-link-the-shadow-of-the-real/
…constipation, cough, debility, dropsy, dysentery, earache, fever, gingivitis, gonorrhea, jaundice, nausea, scabies, scurvy, sore throat, swelling, syphilis, toothache, tuberculosis, tumors, typhoid, venereal diseases, and wounds. Is what draws me the…
…and a pharmacy. Jordanian doctors and nurses, working with a smaller number of expat medics, saw, on average, two hundred people a day. * * * Photograph courtesy of Marcel…
…Bobbi Campbell hung his warning in the window of Star Pharmacy. In this treatment vacuum, marijuana emerged as a palliative remedy for many AIDS-related symptoms, particularly for the nausea and…
…whose misrepresentation of what goes on in disaster often abets and justifies a second wave of disaster. I’m talking about the treatment of sufferers as criminals, both on the ground…
…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…
…standing, the rest of us couples on mats on the floor. “Hee hee hee hoooooooeeeeeee,” I said to a woman, with a woman, rubbing her back in slow, counter-clockwise circles….
https://www.guernicamag.com/fitness-how-the-climate-killed-my-children/
…commanded from American citizens. The transparency of logged keychain searches, character strings, the click-prints we dribble as we tap, link, and share; the transparency of networked medical records, phone bills,…
https://www.guernicamag.com/origins-of-the-twenty-first-century/
…was murmuring a lustful language into her neck, clutching the side of her mosquito net tighter and tighter as he moved. In the blue wet of night, they were naked…
…to the lures and snares of Net fundamentalism. I’ve witnessed at least three waves of Internet boom-and-bust publishing cycles since I got into this business. As the prophets at Suck.com…
https://www.guernicamag.com/roger-d-hodge-the-personality-of-a-magazine/
…Internet software and iPads. Forty percent of the S&P five hudnred biggest corporations are now doing more than sixty percent of their business abroad. And America’s biggest investors are also…
…net, having to use it rankled. When I explained my personal healthcare injustice to my father, he was unsympathetic. “Be careful, Mira,” he said. “It is what it is, and…
…no mere condemnation of British politicians (Tories and Labour Party members alike) and their posh neighborhoods. As The Establishment continues, Jones casts an even wider net with his condemnations. In…
https://www.guernicamag.com/kaya-genc-the-keys-to-the-kingdom/
…our energy future and for the future of great-power politics on planet Earth. Washington is already watching—with anxiety. Rarely has a simple press interview said more about the global power…
Dan Colen, Fuck Authority, 2006. Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 in. © Dan Colen. He had a dull pressure in his arm. He blinked. The pressure increased. He blinked…
…aid stamps out entrepreneurship. Moyo offers the example of an African mosquito net maker. When aid arrives in the form of a hundred thousand mosquito nets, the net-maker is out…