The 234 Apartment

TAMPA, Fla. – The friendship of the four young roommates – though cemented in the dark trappings of an obscure neo- Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division – never seemed destined for bloodshed. One was described as a former science nerd, serving in the Florida National Guard . Two others worked temp jobs at a recycling plant and talked about joining the military. The fourth caught flak from his roommates for wasting his days with video games. Now two of the young men are dead, the other two are in jail and authorities are left to answer this question: Was Atomwaffen Division plotting violent acts or were the four young men merely posers? READ MORE: Canada’s racist movement: a history of violence Candlelight vigil held at University of Virginia campus in support of Charlottesville victims Four days after police say one of the roommates shot and killed two others, Atomwaffen posted an ominous video on YouTube depicting members standing with arms extended in “Heil Hitler” salutes ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The friendship of the four young roommates — though cemented in the dark trappings of an obscure neo- Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division — never seemed destined for bloodshed. One was described as a former science nerd, serving in the Florida National Guard . Two others worked temp jobs at a recycling plant and talked about joining the military. The fourth caught flak from his roommates for wasting his days with video games. Now two of the young men are dead, the other two are in jail and authorities are left to answer this question: Was Atomwaffen Division plotting violent acts or were the four young men merely posers? RELATED | Tampa PD: Double homicide suspect killed roommates because they 'disrespected' his Muslim faith Four days after police say one of the roommates shot and killed two others, Atomwaffen posted an ominous video on YouTube depicting members standing with arms extended in “Heil Hitler” salutes and posing with guns in front of a ...

Dasa Drndic. The capacity to see the bricolage of a reticent, morally compromised, elegiac past —and, more unsettlingly, how that past might see us — is a central feature of the work of the Croatian writer Dasa Drndic . “I have arranged a multitude of lives, a pile of the past, into an inscrutable, incoherent series of occurrences,” one character says in Trieste , Drndic’s most acclaimed novel to date. “I have dug up all the graves of imagination and longing … I have rummaged through a stored series of certainties without finding a trace of logic.” Drndic adorns her novels — ostensible fictions encircling the Holocaust — with rich archival materials : photographs, biographical sketches, transcripts, testimonies, making a kind of blackened garland of twentieth-century history. It is as if, for Drndic, the atrocities of the recent past overwhelm the capacities of both fiction and fact, that only in braiding the two can our proximity to such horror be countenanced. Her most recent novel...

MOSCOW — Stalin’s got a busted nose. Shattered in transit, it makes “Old Joe’s” legendary scowl even more pronounced. His cold granite visage once stood sentinel at the Bolshoi. Now he resides in more humble digs — a leafy park near the banks of the Moscow River. In truth, Stalin — let’s call him the Soviet Robert E. Lee — has nothing to smile about. He is surrounded by a phalanx of grotesque figures — some kneeling, some writhing in pain, some with empty eyes and twisted mouths. Collectively, they resemble nothing so much as demons of the fiery hell Old Joe has surely been consigned to. And lest anyone forget the “heritage” this man wrought, just over Stalin’s left shoulder is a boxy, cage-like affair containing scores of stone heads — anguish written on each face. “Victims to the Totalitarian Regime,” we are informed. Not too far away, Lenin — we’ll call him Russia’s George Washington — enjoys somewhat more generous treatment. Behind him are large aluminum symbols of the USSR ...