US crime This article is more than 8 years oldMissing transgender woman found dead in 'crude grave' in North CarolinaThis article is more than 8 years oldGang member charged with killing of 20-year-old Elisha Walker
Arrest comes amid reports of other murders of trans women The body of Elisha Walker, a 20-year-old transgender woman who had been missing for almost a year, was found in a “crude grave” in Johnston County, North Carolina. Read More...
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, and Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini 256pp, Granta, £14.99
Do you remember having a rather disturbed night's sleep about a month ago? That was the night I stole your brain. After landing my flying saucer in your garden, I crept into your bedroom and surgically removed your sleeping brain. I whisked it to my laboratory back on Pluto and connected it up to a supercomputer running a virtual-Earth program. Read More...
FeminismShe wants to be independent – and taken care of. She loves rap, while finding the lyrics offensive to the core. In this extract from her latest book, a 'flawed' feminist reveals all Read Kira Cochrane's interview with Roxane Gay
I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. Read More...