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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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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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