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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 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"Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem's "Summa Technologiae"Scientology: The Mystery Sandwich see all reviews »
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You’ve Got the Wrong Song: AMC'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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MaryAnne Kolton interviews Ken Bruen

“An Interview with Ken Bruen: The Jack Taylor Series”

November 24th, 2012
John Cline interviews Michael Taussig

“I Swear I Read This: John Cline Interviews Michael Taussig”

January 3rd, 2013
MaryAnne Kolton interviews Kathryn Harrison

“I Want to Destroy Your Equilibrium”

June 11th, 2012
David Masciotra interviews James Lee Burke

“Into the Noir Mystic: A Conversation about Injustice, Evil, and Redemption with James Lee Burke”

September 9th, 2012
Jonathan Kirsch interviews Irvin Yalom

“Irvin Yalom, interviewed by Jonathan Kirsch”

June 24th, 2012
Evan Allgood interviews Sam Lipsyte

“It May Not Be Okay, But This Thing Exists: An Interview with Sam Lipsyte”

April 7th, 2013
Jonathan Penner interviews David Cronenberg

“It's Dangerous to Be An Artist: An Interview with David Cronenberg”

January 28th, 2012
Lee Konstantinou interviews Helen DeWitt

“It's Good To Be Pragmatic: An Interview with Helen DeWitt”

November 21st, 2011
Robert Birnbaum interviews David Shields

“The Innermost Law of the Form: An Interview with David Shields”

April 25th, 2013

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