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Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Side Effects
Hollywood Ending? (Books & Arts, Film)

Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects; Lynne Sach’s Your Day Is My Night

Stuart Klawans
Hacker Unearths Paintings by George W. Bush (Humor)
Calvin Trillln
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You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting (Books & Arts, Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Non-fiction)

Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.

David Auerbach
In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules (America as Empire, Books & Arts, History, Non-fiction)

Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

Richard Kreitner
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Stalker (Books & Arts, Autobiography and Memoir, Internet and New Media, Non-fiction)

For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”

Caleb Crain
robert bresson's still from, the devil, probably
Shelf Life (Arts and Entertainment, Film, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably; Maurice Pilat’s Police; Leo McCary’s My Son John.

Akiva Gottlieb
The Task Ahead (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry
Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry (Books & Arts, Covert Ops, Law, War on Terrorism)

How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.

Samuel Moyn
Portrait of Victor Shklovsky
Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky (Books & Arts, Autobiography and Memoir, Fine Art, Fiction, Literary Criticism)

A Russian novelist’s fight, in life and art, to see the world afresh in all its cruelty and splendor.

Ben Ehrenreich
Photo of Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Religion, Shelf Life)

Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger’s Jews and Words.

Laura Brahm

Blogs

Chris Hayes Gets Called 'Media Elite' by Stephen Colbert
Nation in the News

Stephen Colbert took Hayes to task on his show, holding up Hayes's book Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy.

August 6, 2012
Gore Vidal and the Unfinished American Revolution
John Nichols

A literary lion who ran for Congress and the Senate, Vidal was a displaced American founder in the tradition of Shays’ Rebellion. 

August 1, 2012
How About Also Taking the Guns From the Cops?
Cord Jefferson

The hit BBC show Luther, not to mention real London police, are important reminders that you don't need a gun to be a good cop.

 

July 31, 2012
'Secundus Defecated Here': What Ancient Graffiti Means Today
Cord Jefferson

If you’re under the false impression that the world is falling into utter moral disrepair, turn your eyes toward Pompeii.

July 26, 2012
Lobbyists Bribed Congress With a Free Screening of 'The Dark Knight Rises'
Lee Fang

Are lobbyists using the new Batman movie as a form of bribery? Senator Leahy’s second cameo, and a special preview screening for staff, is a problem.

July 23, 2012
Alexander Cockburn and the Radical Power of the Word
John Nichols

Alex, who has died at the age of 71, believed to the end in the necessity of information and insight as essential elements of an activism that would begin the world over again.

July 21, 2012
George McGovern at 90: Still a Patriot With a Bleeding Heart
John Nichols

McGovern has always practiced a politics that runs deeper; a politics rooted in his love of America’s history, its literature and its possibility.

July 19, 2012
Rockers Renew Radicalism of Woody's 'This Land is Your Land'
John Nichols

Tom Morello marks Guthrie’s 100th by restoring the left-wing verses of his most famous song.

July 13, 2012
Top Ten Woody Guthrie Songs
Peter Rothberg

A centennial tribute to the man whose influence has been as profoundly felt as that of any musician in US, and perhaps world, history.

July 13, 2012
10 Comedians Who Aren't Defending Rape Jokes
Katie Halper

Funnily enough, not all comedians are defending Daniel Tosh’s rape jokes.

July 12, 2012
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