Thriller
by Tom Bissell
Stripping the guilt from the guiltily pleasurable literary thriller.
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Abu Ghraib: A Global Family Portrait
by Jana Prikryl
In the prison abuse scandal in Iraq, the metaphor for the violence of photography has found its skin.
If All Parents Are Bad Parents, What Can We Children Learn from the Children of the Revolution?
by Gregory Gipson
Four new books reveal the radical’s perspective on revolutionary violence.
Mego Crazy
by Tom Bligh
A dispatch from MegoCon 2004, the deadly-serious convention for the greatest action-figure company ever.
Mario Van Peebles
interviewed by Amy Güth
A baadassss director explains why you can stop holding your breath for
New Jack City 2.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
interviewed by Eric Spitznagel
The deceased Sherlock Holmes author reveals the truth about mummies, Bigfoot, and minuscule laptops from the afterlife.
Benjamin Weissman
interviewed by Rachel Kushner
Are you strangely consumed by Hitler’s athletic prowess or children with giant ears and veiny torsos? Weissman is here to help.
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Marjorie Grene
interviewed by Benjamin Cohen
The great-grandmother of philosophy answers our stupid questions about Sartre, hermits, and the cogito.
Alexander Payne
interviewed by Kate Donnelly
The writer/director of
Sideways may or may not be planning to run for public office, and we may or may not have all the details inside.
