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The Marching Saint (Autobiography and Memoir, Labor, Non-fiction)

Staughton Lynd, although he would never admit it, is one of the visible
saints of the modern American left.

Paul Buhle

Last Night in Havana (Poems)

Richard Blanco

ADK (Books and Ideas, Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Nation History)

Alexander Cockburn

Full Metal Jacket (Film)

The Marine Corps training camp where the first, and more striking, half of Full Metal Jacket takes place looks more like a medical facility than a military one.

Terrence Rafferty

Blogs

American Exceptionalism, According to Oliver Stone

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States will be rereleased this month on DVD; it tells a different story than the school textbooks we're used to.

October 1, 2013

Urgent, Unheard Stories

Roxane Gay

New novels, poetry and short-story collections from up-and-coming and established writers of color.

September 24, 2013

Denby Hits Harvard for Publishing Book on Hollywood Moguls’ Aiding Nazis

Greg Mitchell

Is “collaborators” too strong a word for movie bosses dealing with the Hitler regime?

September 24, 2013

WikiLeaks Critiques New ‘Fifth Estate’ Film on Assange—and Provides Script

Greg Mitchell

The news-leaking website, in possession of a leaked script, offers rebuttals to the film that dramatizes Julian Assange's relationship with former colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg.

September 22, 2013

Strange Lands

Roxane Gay

It took years, but I eventually came to terms with loving the idea of NYC more than the city itself.

September 18, 2013

Reading the Stakes in Syria

Roxane Gay

The Syria Dilemma, edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, offers a range of perspectives on the Syrian dilemma from within Syria and beyond.

September 17, 2013

A Literature of Her Own: ‘It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris’, by Patricia Engel

Roxane Gay

The author's absorbing debut novel chronicles a young woman’s year in Paris, where she will have to choose the home wants most.