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A neo-Nazi’s dream of order
And why government need not encourage it
How literature lies about power
Joyce and his mechanical muse
Urine trouble
Design for a Central American battlefield
On the uses of modern fiction
A status-conscious guide to personal programming
Rooting history in a figure of speech
Yevtushenko's recipe for Soviet freedom
Revisionism in the field
Hawking nuclear snake oil
The dwindling American short story
The invention of a patented success
Zambia succumbs to its debts
A taste for porn in a city of women
Keeping tabs on newborn babes
Reading consciousness in its tics and wrinkles
Thurber, Rex, and the making of a hero
Disclosure and the secrets it keeps
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