Michelle McNamara Photo by John Shearer / Getty Images After more than four decades spent searching for the serial rapist and murderer known as the Golden State Killer, at a press conference this morning, authorities in Sacramento announced that they’d (finally) arrested a suspect: Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, an ex-cop who is believed to have […]
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Today Is My Last Day at the Mercury. Bye!!!
I’m Photoshopped onto New York Review of Books editor Robert Silvers here, but this is really what my desk looks like. Suzette Smith Dearest Readers, After almost four years of dedicated feminist rants and the only job that has ever taken full advantage of my multiple dubiously useful arts degrees, today is my last day […]
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The I, Anonymous Classic of the Day: Dear Squirrel Murderers
I, Anonymous is the column where YOU write your most secret confessions and insane rants—anonymously! Sure, it’s a great way to get stuff off your chest, but it’s also a way for you to become FAMOUS—anonymously. The best rants or confessions are chosen to be featured in the print edition of the Mercury (read weekly […]
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The I, Anonymous Classic of the Day!
I, Anonymous is the column where YOU write your most secret confessions and insane rants—anonymously! Sure, it’s a great way to get stuff off your chest, but it’s also a way for you to become FAMOUS—anonymously. The best rants or confessions are chosen to be featured in the print edition of the Mercury (read weekly […]
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The Best Letters I Received from My “Billy Graham Is a Bigot and Homophobe” Article
YouTube Last Friday I wrote an article about flags across the nation being lowered to half-staff for Billy Graham, and how I wasn’t a huge fan of the President’s order, because Graham was a homophobe and bigot. If you’d like to know more, read my article here or consult your local library—there’s a lot of […]
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The I, Anonymous Classic of the Day!
I, Anonymous is the column where YOU write your most secret confessions and insane rants—anonymously! Sure, it’s a great way to get stuff off your chest, but it’s also a way for you to become FAMOUS—anonymously. The best rants or confessions are chosen to be featured in the print edition of the Mercury (read weekly […]
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The I, Anonymous Classic of the Day!
I, Anonymous is the column where YOU write your most secret confessions and insane rants—anonymously! Sure, it’s a great way to get stuff off your chest, but it’s also a way for you to become FAMOUS—anonymously. The best rants or confessions are chosen to be featured in the print edition of the Mercury (read weekly […]
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The I, Anonymous Classic of the Day!
I, Anonymous is the column where YOU write your most secret confessions and insane rants—anonymously! Sure, it’s a great way to get stuff off your chest, but it’s also a way for you to become FAMOUS—anonymously. The best rants or confessions are chosen to be featured in the print edition of the Mercury (read weekly […]
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The I, Anonymous Classic of the Day!
I, Anonymous is the column where YOU write your most secret confessions and insane rants—anonymously! Sure, it’s a great way to get stuff off your chest, but it’s also a way for you to become FAMOUS—anonymously. The best rants or confessions are chosen to be featured in the print edition of the Mercury (read weekly […]
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“Highlights” from Katie Roiphe’s Slate “Interview”
Roiphe says the #MeToo movement has a “weird energy.” I guess massive social change is supposed to be chill? MB Katie Roiphe, longtime sexual assault minimizer, first-time Twitter user, was interviewed at Slate this week, and despite the valiant efforts of interviewer Isaac Chotiner, who deserves a fucking raise, it’s not good. You might recall […]
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Remembering 2017: Learning How to Sword Fight with Swordguild Portland
PHOTOS BY JASON DESOMER [In April the honorable champions of Swordguild Portland invited me to spar with them. It was wild!—CD The first time I heard the clangor of a real-life sword fight, I visibly winced. It’s loud—somehow movies don’t do the crash of steel-on-steel proper justice. The whole body reacts: muscles tense, eyes sharpen, […]
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Remembering 2017: The Week We Published a Newspaper With No Men in It
MARLOWE DOBBE [Do you remember this? It was a real thing we did. It still fills me with pride whenever I remember it. —MB] It’s the shameful open secret of our industry: Journalism is kind of a boys’ club. Since 2009, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has tracked the gender breakdown of bylines in major […]