Molly Crabapple
In Lebanon's Mountains, Syrians Face a Grim Future
The Lebanese government estimates there are 1.3 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, making them 1/4th of the country’s population.
Project ROSE Is Arresting Sex Workers in Arizona to Save Their Souls
A moralistic program in Phoenix arrests sex workers in massive raids and brings them to a church, where they are held extrajudicially and offered alternative sentences without lawyers, judges, or due process.
On Turning 30
Age is a weapon society uses against women. Each year that you gain comfort in your own flesh, your flesh is seen as worth less.
The Horror of the Blank Page: A Conversation with Art Spiegelman
Art was in his Borgesian-library/studio-"The Haus that Maus Built"-surrounded by a century's worth of illustration books. He climbed a ladder propped against his tall, wooden shelves like a mad archivist, grinning.
Inside a Guantanamo Bay Prison Tour - Molly Crabapple Returns to Guantanamo Bay
After VICE published my piece about my first visit to Gitmo, a Department of Defense spokesman phoned my editor, upset that I'd made him look like "a tool."
Molly Crabapple Draws Guantanamo's Camp X-Ray
Camp X-Ray is the first place that the US held detainees in Guantanamo. Captives lived there for four months in 2002 while the military built permanent prison camps. Guards gave them two buckets: one for water and one for shit.
Illustrations from Inside Gitmo's Secretive Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Hearings
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s military commission at Guantanamo Bay is a guarded affair. These are the only unofficial visuals of the hearings.
Molly Crabapple Sent Us Sketches from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Pretrial Hearings at Gitmo
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's military commission at Guantanamo Bay is a guarded affair. It will be the trial of the century, the first attempt at bringing a high-level war-on-terror detainee to justice.
Filthy Lucre
Artists too have their myths. The lies told to artists mirror the lies told to women. Be good enough, be pretty enough, and that guy or gallery will sweep you off your feet, to the picket-fenced land of generous collectors and two and a half kids. But...
The Fight to Save America's Best Free College
President Bharucha probably wasn't too happy when 50 students took over his office at Cooper Union. 200 students and the entire tenured faculty of the art dept., signed a vote of no confidence in Bharucha. All pledged to stay until he steps down.