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The New Republic, By Lionel Shriver
Lisbon :: Portugal | 1 month ago
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Suggested Topics Before hitting the literary big time with her Orange Prize-winning novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver penned a prescient satire about terrorism. As she writes in her author's note, the book didn't find a publisher in
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IN PRINT: Rage Against the Machine
Charlottesville :: VA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Rage Against the Machine A digital heretic decries the spread of "solutionism" Siva Vaidhyanathan There is no such thing as the Internet. That is to say: Thinking, writing, and speaking about the Internet as if there were such a thing as a distinct,
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Obama talks guns on the road, while right-wingers increase flak on skeet photo
President Obama got out of DC on Monday and hit the road to promote his gun control agenda. But right-
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Picture of Obama shooting shows he means what he says about respecting gun culture
President Barack Obama may not be an expert on the rifle range, but he knows how to take aim and pull the trigger. He may or may not do it “all the time,” but a 2012 photo posted Friday on the official White House Flickr account
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Andrew Sullivan: Has this blogger just proved that a lone voice can make big money online?
Oxford :: MA :: USA | 5 months ago
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The blogosphere is an unregulated world where an estimated 175 million writers labour at their keyboards for love and not for money. But one blogger stands apart from all others as an American media institution in his own right. And this week he
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David Brooks: The Sidney Awards, Part II
Baghdad :: Iraq | 5 months ago
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Font Resize Sixty years ago, scientists believed that schizophrenia was caused by emotional conflict with the patient's parents. A cold mother would deliver conflicting messages of hope and rejection and drive her child into madness. Then scientists
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Franklin Foer's View From the Sidelines
Franklin :: TN :: USA | 6 months ago
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Franklin Foer, the editor of The New Republic, is the co-editor of a book about Jewish sports figures, Jewish Jocks. His younger brothers, Jonathan and Joshua, have written well-regarded books...An almost indecent number of the 50 writers he and his
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Facebook Cofounder Chris Hughes Lives Out Powerball Fantasies of Literature PhDs Everywhere
New York City :: NY :: USA | 6 months ago
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Mr. Hughes. (photo via flickr.com/dsearls) New York has just published a lengthy profile of Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes, and it confirms what we've long suspected: This young man has the chutzpah of a well-capitalized comp lit major. After
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2 Periodicals Publish Eerily Similar Profiles of Anna Wintour
Aleppo :: Syria | 9 months ago
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Perhaps the real issue of this campaign is that Vogue editor Anna Wintour wants to be appointed ambassador to France. At least that's the suggestion published in two eerily similar articles in The New Republic and The Daily Beast . The rumor (
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Alexander Cockburn, Left-Wing Writer, Dies at 71
Berlin :: Germany | 10 months ago
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Alexander Cockburn, Left-Wing Writer, Is Dead at 71 Published: July 21, 2012 Alexander Cockburn, the acerbic left-wing journalist and author who though born in Scotland thrived in the political and cultural battlegrounds of the United States, died on
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