Other characters include “Dorry, an octogenarian schizophrenic who’s been on the ward for decades and knows all its secrets; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD, who tries desperately to send alarms to the outside world; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl who acts as the group’s enforcer.” No, these aren’t the characters in Richard [...]

If slaughtering livestock can be seen as part of humans’ closeness to animals, khoj özeeri represents an unusually intimate version. Reaching through an incision in the sheep’s hide, the slaughterer severs a vital artery with his fingers, allowing the animal to quickly slip away without alarm, so peacefully that one must check its eyes to [...]

Here are the most read stories from the last week in Critical Linking… “I used to work for a large publisher where it was more or less common practice to game Amazon reviews. Marketing people had anonymous logons to Amazon and would go and post reviews of new titles. I sat in a few meetings [...]