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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

This Week in Poverty: A Little Help for the Long-Term Unemployed?
Greg Kaufmann

230,000 long-term unemployed workers lost their benefits on Sunday and the system is about to get a whole lot worse.

May 18, 2012
Occupy This Album
Peter Rothberg

A new collection featuring ninety-nine tracks of class-conscious music from ninety-nine artists.

May 17, 2012
Why the Friendship Segregation on HBO's 'Girls' Speaks to a Bigger Problem
Salamishah Tillet

For all our talk about the multiracialism of the millennial generation, the lack of interracial social connections is more than a coincidence.

May 10, 2012
Maurice Sendak's Cultural Influence
Peter Rothberg

Generally considered the leading children's book writer of the past century, his books were touchstones of youth for the generation born after 1960.

May 8, 2012
MCA’s Feminist Legacy
Jessica Valenti

How the Beastie Boys brought hope to female hip hop fans.

May 8, 2012
Goodbye MCA
Peter Rothberg

For me, losing a Beastie Boy is like what losing a Beatle was to my father's generation.

May 4, 2012
Top Ten May Day Songs
Peter Rothberg

In tribute to all those planning actions for May Day, here’s my stab at the impossible task of naming the best songs ever written about working people.

April 25, 2012
On Feminism and Sadomasochistic Sex
Dana Goldstein

Katie Roiphe's Newsweek cover story ignores the fact that in every century and decade, sadomasochistic erotica has broken into the mainstream.

April 16, 2012
Adrienne Rich's Touch Was Political
John Nichols

A poet passionately engaged with writing and politics, she said "art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage."

March 28, 2012
The Not Yet Richer, Still Struggling for Economic Equality, Sex
Bryce Covert

A new book takes exciting and historic trends a step too far.

March 23, 2012
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