Matt Salyer revisits an old essay, an old crime, new photographs. #remix

Think you can mess with Maryann Corbett’s ars poetica? fuhgeddaboudit!

Uche Ogbuji completes his observations upon his home country’s Golden Jubilee.

A comedy writer attempts to understand the ways of the corporate criminal.

The Flats – the flipside of the Cape Town picture postcard – is about as violent a place as you’ll find outside of a war zone. Forty years ago, the apartheid government dumped anybody who wasn’t white out in this windswept maze of shacks and matchbox houses. Ruled by drug lords and gangsters, the Flats has the highest rape and homicide statistics in the world, and children are violated and murdered at a rate that defies belief.

Jeffrey Pillow reflects on a former college basketball teammate’s failed attempt at winning the coveted Spelling Bee championship in 1st grade. After being robbed of the crown on account of corporate branding and product monopolization, Delonta descends into a life of crime and kleptomania. The end result is his banishment from the basketball team after stealing the head coach’s cell phone and reselling it to another teammate.

Tom Hansen transposes elements of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment onto a brief story of his lives and crimes

On a late spring day in 2001 my sister’s drug-dealing ex-boyfriend crashed the pool party she was throwing at our house in the suburbs and shot two people on our front porch. He used a small, snub-nosed revolver from a distance of less than ten feet, firing off all six rounds. Five of them hit [...]

On the fortieth anniversary of the Manson murders, at the exact moment the killers struck, D. R. Haney and a friend stake out the former home of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca, spooked by the presence of a white car drawing steadily, slowly closer.