Crimes By Zip Code

We’d love to correlate random isolated incidents of people going ape shit in the streets with the growing paranoia of an economic downturn and rapid rate of home foreclosures across a frightened American middleclass landscape, but unfortunately sometimes it’s probably just a case of too much crack cocaine...

THE UNMADE

By Jennifer Lynne Ziemann

“Vera understands that sadistic violence not only shatters but actually unmakes the world of the survivors.” I read this line in a book review written for Dissent magazine by Susie Linfield titled “The Bleeding Wound: Zimbabwe’s Slow Suicide.” The Vera she refers to is Yvonne Vera and the book The Stone Virgins.

During the night and day after reading it, I kept returning to the magazine to this page and this sentence, “…sadistic violence not only shatters but actually unmakes the world of the survivors.” I’ll go one step further : it not only unmakes the world of the survivor, it unmakes the survivor.