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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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Anne Richardson on The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantánamo Bay by Jess Bravin

“Justice “Lite”: What Everyone Should Know about the Military Commissions”

May 22nd, 2013
Paul Kincaid on Empty Space by M. John Harrison

“Jetsam on the Terminal Beach”

May 21st, 2013
Michael Kammen on The Voice Is All, Door Wide Open: A Beat Affair in Letters, 1957-58 and Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster by Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson and Steve Turner

“Jack Kerouac’s Restless Odyssey and His New Life “On the Road””

May 9th, 2013
Sara Campos on My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

“Justice Revealed: Sonia Sotomayor’s Early Years”

April 28th, 2013
Jonathan Arac on Post-Postmodernism by Jeffrey T. Nealon

“Jameson Redux: Jeffrey T. Nealon’s “Post-Postmodernism: or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism””

April 13th, 2013
Olivia Harrison on Parting Ways by Judith Butler

“Judith Butler and the Cause of the Other”

December 9th, 2012
Eli MacKinnon on Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

“Jailbreaking Thought: The Alan Turing Centenary ”

September 30th, 2012
Jon Wiener on Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner

“J. Edgar”

May 8th, 2012

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