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Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?

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

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

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

Shawn Francis Peters’s The Catonsville Nine.

The tension between the personal and the political permeates new books on Haiti by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan M. Katz.

Can recordings of classical music ever be in concert with concert hall performances?

How thrillers inform spycraft, and the fictions that belie them both.

Edward Luttwack’’s The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy

What are the new rules of the political game in the Middle East? Nobody knows, but Marc Lynch’s The Arab Uprising is a useful guide.