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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 (Autobiography and Memoir, Books & Arts, 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 (Autobiography and Memoir, Books & Arts, 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
Noted (Political Analysis, Nation History)

Judith Long on Jane Sharples, Allison Kilkenny on the fight for Philly’s schools

Various Contributors

Blogs

The Bush Presidency, Undead
Eric Alterman

With the opening of George W's presidential library, pundits are rushing to whitewash the memory of those years of folly.

April 26, 2013
'Cape Fear,' and Our Fear
Rick Perlstein

In the wake of 9/11 and Boston, is it even possible to imagine a movie that makes civil liberties an integral part of its dramatic arc?

April 23, 2013
Chrissy Amphlett's Pleasure Anthem
Chloe Angyal

In 2013, a song like “I Touch Myself” is less shocking than it once was. But it is still revolutionary.

April 22, 2013
Give Me the Bad News First
Eric Alterman

Press coverage is hasty, error-prone and frequently depressing—but it nonetheless plays a vital role in our society.

April 18, 2013
Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On?
Leslie Savan

Cable TV’s top hit is used to justify every political point of view—right or left, pro-NRA or pro-gun control, even pro-sequester or pro-stimulus.

April 5, 2013
The Minutemen and the Mainstream Media
Rick Perlstein

A new book argues that the media failed to grasp the frightening extremism of the anti-immigrant border patrols of a few years ago—and wraps it in a thrilling true-crime tale.

April 3, 2013
Alex Gibney Interview on Early Media Controversy Over His WikiLeaks Film
Greg Mitchell

Julian Assange himself has criticized the film, but the director says Assange should watch it first.

April 3, 2013
30 Seconds Over Toledo: How Political Ads Spell Trouble for TV News and Democracy
Eric Alterman

In the wake of Citizens United, big campaign donors are buying off not only politicians, but also the local news networks that cover them.

March 21, 2013
The Dark Side of Democracy
Eric Alterman

The lead-up to the Iraq War ten years ago shows us how the media today falsely correlates importance and exclusivity.

March 14, 2013
When a Media Campaign Helped Topple Pinochet: The New Film 'No' Provokes Debate
Greg Mitchell

The Chilean Oscar nominee for best foreign language film has just been released in the US.

March 14, 2013