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A Loaded Gun

Amy Bishop alongside her parents, Judy and Sam, in 1987. Judy calls Amy a “brilliant girl” who “just snapped.”
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (957 words)

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6897 words)

A Reasonable Amount of Trouble

In the 1920s, American fiction desperately needed its own private detective. It was overrun with Sherlock Holmes imitators–erudite puzzle solvers who refused to get their hands dirty. Enter…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1449 words)

The Disappeared

The author, photographed in London in 1994, five years after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence forced him into hiding. Photograph by Richard Avedon.
PUBLISHED: Sept. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (985 words)

Think always of me

In the early hours of October 16th, 1793, nine months after the execution of her husband, Louis XVI, the 37-year-old former Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, wrote the following tear-stained…
PUBLISHED: July 10, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1650 words)

The Violent Visions of Slavoj Žižek

Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Žižek Verso, 1,038 pp., $69.95                      …
AUTHOR:John Gray
PUBLISHED: July 12, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3815 words)

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'I Was There': On Kurt Vonnegut

“The cruelest thing you can do to Kerouac,” Hanif Kureishi has a character say in The Buddha of Suburbia, “is reread him at thirty-eight.” If that was true, I wondered as…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6054 words)

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