Gabriel Horowitz’s Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America was published by Bucknell University Press in October 2023. Christopher Travis (author of Resisting Alienation: The Literary Work of Enrique Lihn) writes, “Horowitz challenges conventional approaches, particularly in recent environmental criticism, that see a return to nature as an emancipatory act (from the colonial period…
Top 10 Fascinating Aspects Of The OJ Simpson Trial
It was billed as the trial of the century, and “The People of the State of California vs. Orenthal James Simpson” certainly lived up to the hype. From the slow-speed, suicide note-prompted car chase down a Los Angeles highway to the highest-rated verdict in courtroom history, the trial of OJ Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ronald Goldman captivated and enthralled like no other courtroom drama in US history.
Here are ten fascinating facts from the trial of the (20th) century.
10 The Murders Were Both Exceptionally Brutal Lost in the shock of a near-universally liked celebrity standing trial for double murder was the extraordinary brutality of both homicides, which were a cut above most blade-inflicted killings.