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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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Toby Barlow interviews Louis Bourgeois

“A Short Ride: Remembering Barry Hannah”

March 19th, 2013
Héctor Tobar interviews Sandra Cisneros

“Sandra Cisneros with Hector Tobar”

January 22nd, 2013
Michael Lipson interviews Allison Burnett

“Shaggy Foreskins of The Palm Trees: A Conversation with Allison Burnett”

February 4th, 2013
Josh Kun interviews Sergio González Rodríguez

“So Many Bones in the Desert”

May 4th, 2012
Colin Marshall interviews Eric Lax

“Some Things are More Radioactive than Others”

February 13th, 2013
Anthony Miller interviews Steve Erickson

“Steve Erickson answers three questions”

July 15th, 2012
Steve Greene interviews Teddy Wayne

“Steve Greene interviews Teddy Wayne on "The Love Song of Jonny Valentine"”

March 14th, 2013
Matthew Specktor interviews Lorin Stein

“The Sliding Door: Matthew Specktor Interviews Paris Review Editor Lorin Stein”

October 23rd, 2012
Domenick Ammirati interviews Joseph Crespino

“The State of Strom Thurmond's America”

February 12th, 2013
Len Gutkin interviews William H. Gass

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

April 1st, 2013

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