Issue 101, FACING THE THING, is live!

[Hypocrite Reader]

Dear readers, 

From our first-ever no-theme (and invitation-only!) call for pitches, we've assembled a crew of essays that aren't afraid to meet the thing head-on. In our 101st issue, our writers come face to face with death, difficult histories, and their own gay-as-hell selves.

• Tessa Cheek cares for, then kills, a pig.
• Katy Burnett unearths Brecht's relationships with collaborators, through whom he came to understand commodities, capitalism, and the job of the theater. 
• Misha Crafts examines how horror movies like Hellraiser and Sleepaway Camp led them into queer desire. 
• HR editor Kit Eginton sat down with South African artist Lawrence Lemaoana, whose work we featured in last year's WHERE YOU STAY. 
• Sanders Bernstein investigates the uses and abuses of revenge--and the story of a postwar attempt at vengeful mass murder--to reshape the German and Israeli politics of memory. 
• Finally, Hannah Blair gives us a graphic essay about how her aunt died of cancer while surrounded by the beloved family she'd refused to speak to for years. 

And absolutely don't miss Kit's orienting introduction!

Read on and stay in touch, 

Cat, Kit, James, and Piper