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Two Alices and Political Produce
"France has a way of enticing Californian women who love to cook." Chloe Chappe on Alice Waters and Alice B. Toklas.
On WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
Donald Boström recounts his interactions with Julian Assange in the early 2010s and gives his thoughts on the WikiLeaks founder's legal controversies.
The Weekly Read: April 22, 2019
Steve Lichtman reviews the week in politics and culture.
Fantasy Girls
Rachel Feder discusses Mary Shelley, Margaret Cavendish, and the fraught title of "mother of science fiction."
Birthday, the First Tearjerker About the Ferry Disaster that Killed 250 High-School Students
Colin Marshall reviews “Birthday,” the first major tearjerker about the 2014 Korean ferry tragedy.
Coming for Us: Primo Levi and the Border Patrol
Novelist and Professor Fenton Johnson responds to an intrusion by the US Border Patrol into the University of Arizona campus.
Information in an Emergency: Talking to Seth Abramson
Andy Fitch discusses forms of journalistic inquiry with Seth Abramson, author of the recent book "Proof of Collusion."
LACMA: Suicide by Architecture, Schematics
Joseph Giovannini provides schematics used in his analysis of the Zumthor-LACMA reconstruction proposal.
A Conversation between Lucinda Rosenfeld and Rachel Cline
Lucinda Rosenfeld interviews Rachel Cline about her latest novel, "The Question Authority."
