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Beyond the Broken Window

William Bratton and the new police state

In the Pain Cavern

By Maggie Nelson, from The Argonauts, out next month from Graywolf. Nelson is the author of several books, including Bluets, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, and Jane: A Murder.

Dire Straights

From questions asked by deputies of the L.A. County Men’s Jail to determine whether an inmate should be placed in a unit created to house and protect gay and transgender…

Come With Us If You Want to Live

by Sam Frank,

Among the apocalyptic libertarians of Silicon Valley

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by Ian Davis,

Christmas in Prison

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration

AUTOMOBILE. Field sobriety test. Photographer unknown. 07-06-1958

Silicon Ally

by Richard Rodriguez,

From an interview with Richard Rodriguez published in the Spring 2014 issue of Boom: A Journal of California. Rodriguez is the author, most recently, of Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, excerpted…

More Irksome Than a California Quake

by John R. MacArthur,

The taming of a once-wild state

Blue Sky Days

by Tomas van Houtryve,

Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

On Nudity

by Norman Rush,

By Norman Rush, from Granta 126, published earlier this year. Rush is the author of several works of fiction, including, most recently, Subtle Bodies. From an early age, I was…

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Beyond the Broken Window

In the Pain Cavern

Dire Straights

Come With Us If You Want to Live

California

Christmas in Prison

AUTOMOBILE. Field sobriety test. Photographer unknown. 07-06-1958

Silicon Ally

More Irksome Than a California Quake

Blue Sky Days

On Nudity

March 2014

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