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[VIDEO] Denis Wood, "Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas" Dirty Wars: An Interview with Jeremy ScahillThe "Who, What, and Why" Behind Guantánamo: An Interview with Jess Bravin[VIDEO] Margaret Atwood, "Positron"PODCAST #29: Nathaniel Rich, "Odds Against Tomorrow"[VIDEO] LA Times Festival of Books: Ask the Authors[VIDEO] Rachel Kushner, "The Flamethrowers"Eternal Sleep: The Uyghur Shrines of the Taklamakan DesertJames Franco on His Adaptation of Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying"PODCAST #28: Anna Stothard, "The Pink Hotel"Married Love: A Conversation with Tessa Hadley[VIDEO] Marisa Silver on her latest, "Mary Coin" see all interviews »
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A POEM FOR PRESIDENT DRONE
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Amanda DeMarco on Awakening to the Great Sleep War by Gert Jonke

“Toward Incomparable Ways of Speaking: Gert Jonke’s Languages and Landscapes”

May 25th, 2013
Amanda DeMarco on My Father’s Book by Urs Widmer

“The Relentless Cascade of Life: Urs Widmer’s Autobographical Fictions”

May 25th, 2013
Mark Sussman on My Struggle Book Two by Karl Ove Knausgaard

“Fueled by Sentences: The Uncanny Art of Karl Ove Knausgaard”

May 24th, 2013
Recapturing the World with Karl Ove Knausgaard
by Nina MacLaughlin

“On Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard”

May 24th, 2013
When Love Doesn’t Last: Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight"
by Tomas Hachard

“On Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight" ”

May 24th, 2013
Jeremy Butman on Mayakovsky’s Revolver by Matthew Dickman

“Matthew Dickman Keeps it Together: On "Mayakovsky’s Revolver"”

May 23rd, 2013

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