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But What About the Soul: Poets at the Movies (Part 1)Bloomsday 2013: John JoyceMr. Chan and the MachineMOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 2)MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 1)Rape in the Military: Ben Klay's TestimonyLove, Loneliness, Rot: "That Smell" and Egypt Under Nasser The White Worm: Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color"What’s Left to Say? Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby“Bliss Unending”: Why Luhrmann’s Dangerously Romantic Take On Gatsby WorksHow To Read AgambenThe Empty Chair: A Petition for Ghassan ZaqtanPost-Structural Integrity: "Arrested Development," Season FourTen Things I Learned From Loving "Anne of Green Gables" see all essays »
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Living It Up at the Death Café: An Interview with Lizzy MilesDigging Into Crimes: A Conversation with Peter May[VIDEO] Matthew Specktor, "American Dream Machine"Funambulism: An Interview with Colum McCannPODCAST #32: Jeff Weiss & Evan McGarvey, "2pac vs. Biggie"The Public Life of Poetry: An Interview with Natasha TretheweyThe Second Act of Alex Espinoza[VIDEO] Stephen Burt, "Belmont: Poems"50 Years of NYRB: An Interview with Robert Silvers Paul Farmer: What He’s Afraid of, and What’s Wrong With The Way We Do AidContextual Loneliness: An Interview with Fiona MaazelPODCAST #31: Marc Maron, "Attempting Normal"[VIDEO] Tom Bissell and The Perks of Being a Dilettante see all interviews »
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Simon Critchley on The Silence of Animals by John Gray

“John Gray’s Godless Mysticism: On "The Silence of Animals"”

June 2nd, 2013
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: M. John Harrison's "Empty Space"”

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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