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The title essay is arguably her masterpiece, a cool vivisection of a place and time when the center fell apart.
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Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
Now, 25 years later, under the moniker Tanner Leatherstein, Yildiz is parlaying his insight into leather into an addictive TikTok presence involving entertaining vivisections of designer leather bags.
—Isabel Slone, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Apr. 2023
The tactic contrasted with the more militant approach of, say, the Animal Liberation Front, whose members were more likely to don ski masks and open cages at a mink farm, or break equipment of a vivisection lab, remaining anonymous in order to strike again.
—Andrew Schwartz, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2022
His critique of scientistic imperialism in promiscuous, cruel vivisection finds a resonant echo in our time in our better protocols for animal experimentation, as John P. Gluck in his Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals (2016) has movingly shown.
—M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 5 Dec. 2020
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Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
Now, 25 years later, under the moniker Tanner Leatherstein, Yildiz is parlaying his insight into leather into an addictive TikTok presence involving entertaining vivisections of designer leather bags.
—Isabel Slone, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Apr. 2023
The tactic contrasted with the more militant approach of, say, the Animal Liberation Front, whose members were more likely to don ski masks and open cages at a mink farm, or break equipment of a vivisection lab, remaining anonymous in order to strike again.
—Andrew Schwartz, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2022
His critique of scientistic imperialism in promiscuous, cruel vivisection finds a resonant echo in our time in our better protocols for animal experimentation, as John P. Gluck in his Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals (2016) has movingly shown.
—M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 5 Dec. 2020
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