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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"A Transformed Legal Profession Faces the Future: Barry A. Sanders on “The Lawyer Bubble”The World’s Bloodiest Civil WarTo Be Seen, To Be Heard: Erica Lorraine Scheidt's "Uses For Boys"Tesser Well: Rebecca Stead's "When You Reach Me"Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem's "Summa Technologiae"Publishers on a MissionEmpire and the Mau Mau: A Story of Colonialism and Counter-InsurgencyFDR: Good for the Jews?Scientology: The Mystery SandwichUntied, Undone: "Bough Down" by Karen Green see all reviews »
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Syria, 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 EvermoreSingle Payer Health Insurance Bill Orphaned In CaliforniaRagged But Right: Wayne White on George Jones see all essays »
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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 DickeyFifty Years of Filmmaking: An Interview with William Friedkin[VIDEO] Aleksandar Hemon on his latest "The Book of My Lives"The Innermost Law of the Form: An Interview with David Shields see all interviews »
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Claire Cameron interviews Sam Garrett

“The Fluent Medium of Translation: An Interview with Sam Garrett ”

March 28th, 2013
Len Gutkin interviews William H. Gass

“The Stupidity of Mankind, Its Misuse of Reason: An Interview with William H. Gass”

April 1st, 2013
Colin Marshall interviews Jim Gavin

“PODCAST #25: Jim Gavin on his collection "Middle Men"”

April 7th, 2013
Clarissa Romano interviews Anne Germanacos

“Delight and Delectation: An Interview with Anne Germanacos”

July 27th, 2011
The Questionnaire interviews Loren Glass

“The Questionnaire: Loren Glass”

March 26th, 2012
The Questionnaire interviews Misha Glouberman

“The Questionnaire: Misha Glouberman”

March 29th, 2012
Tom Lutz interviews Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti

“PODCAST: Philosophical Improvisations”

December 20th, 2011
Tom Lutz interviews Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti

“Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti”

January 1st, 2012
An interview with Tod Goldberg

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

March 7th, 2013
Daniel Olivas interviews Reyna Grande

“Reyna Grande’s Journey: Daniel Olivas interviews Reyna Grande”

December 6th, 2012
Emily Green and The Questionnaire interviews Emily Green

“The Questionnaire: Emily Green”

April 19th, 2012

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