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Jail Break 2013: Already something of a criminal célèbre in the mold of the French gangster Jacques Mesrine, Redoine Faid landed...
The War on Pants 2013: A Louisiana town has passed an ordinance that would criminalize the wearing of “sagging pants”—defined by the ordinance as...
Payback 2013: Debtors’ prisons, officially abolished in the U.S. in the 1833, are making a comeback. According to the ACLU,...
Luck of the Draw 2013: New York City police arrested a Harlem man for running an illegal “numbers game” ring, a lottery-like betting operation...
Immortal Technique 2013: A Russian university lecturer and his "scientific assistant" have been detained by authorities for possessing 14 kilograms of radioactive...
Cold Case 2013: In 1990, $500 million dollars worth of art was stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and now, twenty-three...
Burkhard Bilger Patrols With the K-9 Unit 2012 / New York City
This is a Stick Up! 2013: Bank robbery, a crime whose perpetrators once held America’s rapt attention, is on the decline. A sharp rise in...
Dead, Again 2013: When Sergei Magnitsky died in a Russian detention center in November 2009, it was, by all accounts, the final...
The Complete Syllabus: Intoxication A list of all of the books used in our Winter issue, “Intoxication.”
Michael Pollan Bleeds a Poppy 1997 / Connecticut
Progress Report 1919 / Atlanta
Nick Reding Reconstructs the Hallucination 2001 / Oelwein, IA
What Do You Call
An Irishman From Atlantic City?
Boardwalk Empire and the rise and fall of the Irish-American mobster as politician.
Tipped Off 1931 / Seattle
Withdrawal Symptoms 1954 / Los Angeles
Covert Affairs c. 300 BC / India
See Something, Predict Something 2012: New York City will soon be moving into the future of crime detection and prevention. The Domain Awareness System,...
John Berendt Receives a Tutorial 1982 / Beaufort, SC
Philip K. Dick Recalls the Future 1992 / New York City
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