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The Relentless Cascade of Life: Urs Widmer’s Autobographical FictionsToward Incomparable Ways of Speaking: Gert Jonke’s Languages and LandscapesFueled by Sentences: The Uncanny Art of Karl Ove KnausgaardMatthew Dickman Keeps it Together: On "Mayakovsky’s Revolver"Justice “Lite”: What Everyone Should Know about the Military CommissionsAll Clear Ahead: Muriel Rukeyser’s "Savage Coast"The Femme Fatale and The Fly In The House of GodJetsam on the Terminal Beach: M. John Harrison's "Empty Space"Answers on a Postcard: Departures, or Some Accidental British DebutsDelusions of Progress: Psychiatry's Diagnostic ManualThe Secrets of Consciousness and the Problem of God“Tangled in Death”: Richard Lange's "Angel Baby" see all reviews »
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Recapturing the World with Karl Ove KnausgaardWhen Love Doesn’t Last: Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight" A Poem for President DroneYou’ve Got the Wrong Song: ABC's "Nashville" and Country Music FeminismSyria, On the Cusp of Hipness, Then FadingCarousel Country: Of Power Wars and Populism in Argentina Lost Causes: The Novels of Kim Young-haIf the SAT Were a Key to All MythologyHollywood Bigfoot: Terrence Malick and the Twenty-Year Hiatus That Wasn'tConversion Experience: Terrence Malick’s "To The Wonder"How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of LifeHurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and GreeceMarx, Public Choice Theory, and the Utility-Maximizing ConsumerUntucking "RuPaul's Drag Race"Dick Nixon, To Kick Around Evermore see all essays »
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INTERVIEWS

[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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Robert Birnbaum interviews David Shields

“The Innermost Law of the Form: An Interview with David Shields”

April 25th, 2013
Evan Allgood interviews Sam Lipsyte

“It May Not Be Okay, But This Thing Exists: An Interview with Sam Lipsyte”

April 7th, 2013
John Cline interviews Michael Taussig

“I Swear I Read This: John Cline Interviews Michael Taussig”

January 3rd, 2013
MaryAnne Kolton interviews Ken Bruen

“An Interview with Ken Bruen: The Jack Taylor Series”

November 24th, 2012
David Masciotra interviews James Lee Burke

“Into the Noir Mystic: A Conversation about Injustice, Evil, and Redemption with James Lee Burke”

September 9th, 2012
Jonathan Kirsch interviews Irvin Yalom

“Irvin Yalom, interviewed by Jonathan Kirsch”

June 24th, 2012
MaryAnne Kolton interviews Kathryn Harrison

“I Want to Destroy Your Equilibrium”

June 11th, 2012
Jonathan Penner interviews David Cronenberg

“It's Dangerous to Be An Artist: An Interview with David Cronenberg”

January 28th, 2012
Lee Konstantinou interviews Helen DeWitt

“It's Good To Be Pragmatic: An Interview with Helen DeWitt”

November 21st, 2011

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