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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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[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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Mya Guarnieri interviews Four Palestinian Women

“Women and the Middle East Part I: Palestine — Gender, Education, and Life in the West Bank ”

January 20th, 2013
Matt Hooley interviews David Treuer

“We Are All Related: An Interview with David Treuer”

January 14th, 2013
Shona Sanzgiri interviews Davy Rothbart

“Why Fuck Around with Small Talk?”

December 8th, 2012
Daniel Olivas interviews Justin Torres

“Wincing in Anticipation: An Interview with Justin Torres”

September 26th, 2012
Lauren Eggert-Crowe interviews Miranda July

“Want Ads: An Interview with Miranda July”

August 14th, 2012
Victoria Dailey interviews Leonard Koren

“Where Everything's Thermal: A Conversation with Leonard Koren”

May 25th, 2012
Michaelangelo Matos interviews Chuck Eddy

“The Writer's Jukebox: An Interview with Chuck Eddy”

September 29th, 2011

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