A Climate of Fear

Fred Vargas

THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVEL. A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene. Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who ten years earlier had also taken part in a doomed expedition to Iceland. How are these d...

Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment

Philippa Snow

A blending of art and pop cultural criticism about people who injure themselves for our entertainment or enlightenment. A few weeks before he died, Hunter S. Thompson left an answerphone message for Jackass' Johnny Knoxville- "I might be coming to Baton Rouge... and if I do I will call you, because I wi...