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Overwhelming and Collective Murder, by Sam Kriss

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We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure A depiction of Aztec human sacrifice from the sixteenth-century Tovar Codex, by Juan de Tovar © John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Discussed in this essay: All Desire Is a Desire for Being, by René Girard. Edited with an introduction by Cynthia L. Haven. Penguin Classics. 317 pages. £12.99. O n November 8, 1519, the first Europeans to walk into the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán saw something none of them had seen before. “All these buildings,” the conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo later recalled, resembled “fairy castles . . . so high, majestic, and splendid.” The city was a garden filled with flowers. In the evenings, the air smelled of perfumed resin. The squares were “kept so very clean that there was not the smallest particle of dust or straw to be seen anywhere.” And then Díaz del Castillo climbed the one hundred and fourteen steps of the great temple and saw the “al

November 2023 Issue [Reviews] Overwhelming and Collective Murder Adjust Share The grand, gruesome theories of René Girard by Sam Kriss , A depiction of Aztec human sacrifice from the sixteenth-century Tovar Codex, by Juan de Tovar © John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Discussed in this essay: All Desire Is a Desire for Being, by René Girard. Edited with an introduction by Cynthia L. Haven. Penguin Classics. 317 pages. £12.99. On November 8, 1519, the first Europeans to walk into the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán saw something none of them had seen before. “All

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