All Reviews

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  Romania: A Tale of Two Problems

  Looking at two problems by which Romania has been plagued.

  Alexander ClappMay 29, 2014

  • Cultural Studies

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  There’s Something Missing; Maybe the NSA Can Find It

  No Place to Hide misses an important opportunity to show where laws and policies diverge.

  Allegra L. FunstenMay 28, 2014

  • Law

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  The Secret’s in the Tradecraft

  Adam Brookes gets it right with Night Heron.

  Paul FrenchMay 27, 2014
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  The Criminal Kind: Dennis Palumbo’s "Night Terrors"

  Palumbo uses all the noir conventions in surprisingly fresh ways.

  May 27, 2014

• The Kind of Woman She Will Be: Cara Hoffman on the Return of the (Female) Soldier

  Maggie DohertyMay 26, 2014
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  The Ghosts of the Great War

  This is 2014, not 1914 — but the problems in Ukraine are a direct result of the First World War’s troubled conclusion in Russia.

  John Daniel DavidsonMay 26, 2014
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  War and Insurgency

  Michael LokessonMay 26, 2014

  • Literary Fiction

• The Tender Underbelly of Soldiers: Phil Klay’s Lives During Wartime

  Klay’s nearly universally acclaimed collection — about our experiences of warfare, on the ground and on the home front — though promising, is deeply flawed.

  Nathan DeuelMay 26, 2014

• Marijuana gets the green light

  The poem of hashish is a long one.

  Anna KingMay 25, 2014
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  The Bear Truth (How an Individual Right to Bear Arms Emerged from the Desire for a Well Regulated Militia)

  Second Amendment activism is very easy to trace not to the founders, but to the shift to the right beginning with Reagan, and the change in the NRA’s sense of their mission at the same time.

  Anne RichardsonMay 24, 2014

  • Law

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  Object Lesson: Dinah Lenney and the Essayist’s Dilemma

  Dinah Lenney has, in The Object Parade, solved the age-old essayist’s dilemma.

  Ned Stuckey-FrenchMay 24, 2014
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  “Which Is Me”

  David BakerMay 24, 2014
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  The Devil and the Dead

  In A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain, Adrianne Harun finds beauty in pitch black; she makes poetry out of brutality and grace out of terror.

  Diana WagmanMay 23, 2014
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  A Whole Lot of Time Travel and Some Very Good Fiction

  David WittenbergMay 23, 2014
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  Long Overdue: A New Anthology of Pregnancy and Birth

  Thirty birth stories from 30 acclaimed female writers.

  Elisa AlbertMay 22, 2014
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  The Criminal Kind: Attica Locke’s Cutting Season

  Attica Locke’s latest novel is a double-edged murder mystery boasting not only Locke’s strikingly original voice, but also a timely and politically committed story.

  May 21, 2014