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“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"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 SandwichFinding Words For What Is Horrible: Aleksandar Hemon's "The Book of My Lives"Man and Wunderkammern: "The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert Ripley"Untied, Undone: "Bough Down" by Karen Green see all reviews »
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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 JonesIn Memory of Carmine Infantino (1925–2013) see all essays »
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[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 ShieldsThe Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie see all interviews »
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Tom Lutz interviews David Shields

“David Shields at UCR Writers Week 2013 [VIDEO]”

February 20th, 2013
Paul Holdengräber interviews David Lynch

“David Lynch on His Favorite Photographs”

February 12th, 2013
Tom Lutz interviews Dave Barry

“Dave Barry talks to Tom Lutz”

January 30th, 2013
Ross Andersen interviews Robert Pogue Harrison

“Deforestation in a Civilized World”

July 7th, 2012
Ellis Weiner interviews David Misch

“David Misch interviewed by Ellis Weiner”

June 17th, 2012
Michael Szalay interviews Dana Spiotta

“Dana Spiotta interviewed by Michael Szalay”

May 30th, 2012
Oliver Wang interviews David J. Leonard

“David Leonard and Oliver Wang on "After Artest"”

May 26th, 2012
Lea Aschkenas interviews Margaret Randall

“Dream of a Different World”

May 10th, 2012
Tom Lutz interviews Michael Tolkin

“The Death of the Hollywood Novel”

April 18th, 2012
Clarissa Romano interviews Anne Germanacos

“Delight and Delectation: An Interview with Anne Germanacos”

July 27th, 2011

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