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All 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"Publishers on a MissionScientology: The Mystery Sandwich 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 California see all essays »
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[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 DickeyFifty Years of Filmmaking: An Interview with William Friedkin[VIDEO] Aleksandar Hemon on his latest "The Book of My Lives" see all interviews »
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Casey Walker on The Triumph of the City and Aerotropolis by Edward Glaeser, John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay

“Keys to the City”

May 30th, 2011
Amy Ephron on Blue Nights by Joan Didion

“Kind of Blue”

October 27th, 2011
Josh Langhoff on Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism by Chuck Eddy

“King of the Contrarians: Chuck Eddy's "Rock and Roll Always Forgets"”

September 29th, 2011
Lee Polevoi on Bin Laden's Bald Spot and Other Stories by Brian Doyle

“King of the Losers”

February 13th, 2012
Cullen Gallagher on Rapture Alley / Winter Girl / Strictly for the Boys by Harry Whittington

“King of the Paperbacks”

January 23rd, 2012
Sarah Mesle on The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

“Kisses, Kings, Camaros: Maggie Stiefvater’s Rural Epic”

February 21st, 2013
Megan Abbott and Boris Dralyuk on Driven by James Sallis

“Knowing It Has to End”

May 7th, 2012

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“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece” By Stephanos Papadopoulos

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