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The Age of Amazon
Has Jeff Bezos thrust us into a nightmare version of a consumer utopia?
Chris Lehmann

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Reading Camus in Tunisia
The Rebel and the Arab Spring.
Robert Zaretsky

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A Bathroom of One’s Own
In a Kenyan slum, pocket privies offer women safety, autonomy and a way to make a living.
John Collins

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Silk Road Rage
Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin is a grotesque portrayal of modern-day China's struggle with corruption.
Michael Atkinson

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Saints and Sinners
Stephen Jimenez's new book, The Book of Matt, aims to de-mythologize Matthew Shepard.
Yasmin Nair

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Experts Needed; Knowledge Optional
How the Beltway media embraced a fake Syria expert.
Chris Lehmann

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The Seamus Heaney I Knew
In memory of a Nobelist and a dear friend.
Jane Miller

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The Zombie Economist
Alan Greenspan is baa-ack.
Chris Lehmann

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Are We Fabulous Yet?
The tyranny of queer beauty.
Yasmin Nair

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Uh-oh, We F**ked Our Mother
Our Oedipal relationship with Mother Earth.
Theo Anderson

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This Can’t Be Paradise
Dante gets an update in Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's provocative new films.
Michael Atkinson

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Jonathan Lethem’s New Muse
A failed socialist utopia in Queens stands in for the disarray of American progressivism.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Hard Times, the Sequel
George Packer on the disappearance of the American Dream.
Catherine Tumber

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China’s One-Child Tyranny
In his new novel, Chinese author Ma Jian vividly excoriates his native country's population control.
Jane Miller

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Back to the Orchard
Restoring a farm on Lake Superior with hard work and hard cider.
John Collins

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Orange Is the New Black Roundtable, Part 1: Why, Despite Ourselves, We’re Watching
Our panel of experts on how they got sucked into OITNB, and whether the show gets race right.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Dystopia, for the ‘Lulz’
In MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood explores fundamental questions and mutant pigs.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Rats in the Laboratory of Democracy
State legislatures are gaining power, but not for the people.
Chris Lehmann

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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 3: Trans Women and Mentally Ill Cartoons
In OITNB's most-talked-about episode, Sophia Burset explodes transgender stereotypes, and Crazy Eyes gets thrown under the bus.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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P.J. Harvey Gets Unmistakably Political
Harvey's new track pays homage to Shaker Aamer, who has spent 13 years in Guantanamo.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Tricky Dick’s Flicks
Before going to prison, three giddy Nixon staffers took reels of White House footage.
Michael Atkinson

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In the Dark About Light
Our streetlight problem.
Elizabeth Sanders and Seth Bensel

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A Brief History of Squatting
The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space chronicles decades of Lower East Side occupations.
Arun Gupta

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The Myth of the Hardhat Hawk
Was the working class really the biggest proponent of the Vietnam War?
Bhaskar Sunkara
