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American

Candid Camera

From transcripts of conversations between Maria Irene Fornes, a Cuban-American playwright and director, and Michelle Memran, a filmmaker. Memran’s documentary about Fornes’s life, The Rest I Make Up, is currently…

Acceptable Losses

by Andrew Cockburn,

Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen

My Holy Land Vacation

by Tom Bissell,

Touring Israel with 450 Christian Zionists

El Bloqueo

by Joy Gordon,

The Cuban embargo continues

The Old Man

by David Means,

A writer remembers his father

Ex Post

by Annie Dillard,

The life of a woman of letters

Disunified Front

by Charles Glass,

The chaotic, underfunded battle against the Islamic State

Escaping Wars and Waves

by Olivier Kugler,

A Special Relationship

by Andrew Cockburn,

The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again

Riding the Night

by John Masefield,

All the way, at odd times, far off, with neither sense nor sequence, the guns have sounded almost like the noises of peace — blasting or pile-driving. Now, outside the…

The New China Syndrome

by Barry C. Lynn,

American business meets its new master