Sonya Vatomsky

Bio: Sonya Vatomsky is a writer and researcher based in the Pacific Northwest. They are the author of Salt Is For Curing (Sator Press, 2015) and a staff writer at Haute Macabre; their work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Slate, Atlas Obscura, and elsewhere. Find them online at @coolniceghost and sonyavatomsky.com.

Politics & History

When Societies Put Animals on Trial

Animal trials were of two kinds: (1) secular suits against individual creatures; and (2) ecclesiastic cases against groups of vermin.

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Can We Build a Better Facebook?

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Education & Society

Jews vs. the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”

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Arts & Culture

Verbatim: Fredric Jameson

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Politics & History

The Genocide Before the Shoah

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Arts & Culture

Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics

In his new book, literary historian Alex Beringer demonstrates how the birth of the genre of printed comic long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages.

Sonya Vatomsky

When Societies Put Animals on Trial

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