The cover looks kinda campy but this essay collection is actually a highbrow look at the lingering effects of violent crime on the victims, the perpetrators, and society.

I particualrly enjoyed the essay about true crime as entertainment, and would like to read more about that.

I was very moved by the longform profile of a UT tower shooting victim.

The story on what gunshot wounds really do to a body was more than I expected: I agree that if people actually saw the photos of autopsies and such, our national discourse around gun control and violence would be completely different (honestly, sometimes curiosity has gotten the best of me and I have regretted it every time).

Finally, that reporting on CBP is mind boggling: the stuff of dystopian nightmeres is happing to US citizens, in the United States, and it is completely legal.