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Justice “Lite”: What Everyone Should Know about the Military CommissionsJetsam on the Terminal Beach: M. John Harrison's "Empty Space"All Clear Ahead: Muriel Rukeyser’s "Savage Coast"The Femme Fatale and The Fly In The House of GodAnswers 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"A Transformed Legal Profession Faces the Future: Barry A. Sanders on “The Lawyer Bubble”The World’s Bloodiest Civil WarTesser Well: Rebecca Stead's "When You Reach Me"To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Erica Lorraine Scheidt's "Uses For Boys"Scientology: The Mystery Sandwich see all reviews »
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You’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"Object Man: On Llyn Foulkes at the HammerLetter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist StateDick Nixon, To Kick Around Evermore see all essays »
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The "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 HadleyJust This Side of Tragic: An Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz[VIDEO] Marisa Silver on her latest, "Mary Coin"PODCAST #27: Colin Dickey[VIDEO] Aleksandar Hemon on his latest "The Book of My Lives" see all interviews »
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An interview with Tod Goldberg

“Tod Goldberg at UCR Writers Week 2013 [VIDEO]”

March 7th, 2013
Ian Scheffler interviews Joyce Johnson

“Taking the Measure of Jack Kerouac: A Conversation with Joyce Johnson”

December 21st, 2012
Daniel Olivas interviews Sandra Cisneros

“Three Questions for Sandra Cisneros Regarding Her New Book, "Have You Seen Marie?"”

October 8th, 2012
Robert Birnbaum interviews Hari Kunzru

“That Quivering Point of Saturation”

June 15th, 2012
William Giraldi interviews Christopher R. Beha

“Two Great Writers Talk about Writing”

June 12th, 2012
Andy Zax interviews Jonathan Lethem

“Talking Heads' "Fear of Music"”

April 29th, 2012

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