Peter C. Baker

Peter C. Baker is a writer in Evanston, Illinois. His first novel, Planes, will be published next spring. (July 2021)

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Death Drives

Pedestrian fatalities are rising dramatically in the US, and Angie Schmitt’s Right of Way gives a rare look at why and what might be done about it.

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

by Angie Schmitt

July 22, 2021 issue

The Bloodhound

A distinct thread of anger runs through all of Nicholson Baker’s work: anger at what people with power get up to in the shadows, anger at how they lie about it, anger at how we forget.

Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act

by Nicholson Baker

March 11, 2021 issue

Police officers at the scene of a shooting on the North Side of Chicago, 2009

A Legacy of Torture in Chicago

Laurence Ralph’s ‘The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence’

The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence

by Laurence Ralph

July 2, 2020 issue

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