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Criticism

Murdoch Triumphant

by Marvin Kitman,

How we could have stopped him—twice

The Soft-Kill Solution

by Ando Arike,

New frontiers in pain compliance

We Still Torture

by Luke Mitchell,

The new evidence from Guantánamo

Drawing Blood

by Art Spiegelman,

Outrageous cartoons and the art of outrage

Voting Democracy off the Island

by Francine Prose,

Reality TV and the Republican ethos

A Court of No Appeal

by Renata Adler,

How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times

Onan the Magnificent

by Roger D. Hodge,

The triumph of the testicle in contemporary art

Scent of a Woman’s Ink

by Francine Prose,

Are women writers really inferior?

Back to the Future

by Russ Rymer,

Disney reinvents the company town

Say It Ain’t So, Huck

by Jane Smiley,

Second thoughts on Mark Twain’s “masterpiece”

Death News

by Anne Fadiman,

Requiem for the Hemlock Quarterly

Wanton Acts of Usage

by Christopher Hitchens,

Terrorism: a cliché in search of a meaning

The Temple of Boredom

by Lucy Sante,

Science fiction, no future

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