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Biography

Life as a Terrorist

Uncovering my FBI file

A Different Kind of Father

By Jonathan Franzen, from a footnote to his translation of “Nestroy and Posterity,” a 1912 essay by the Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and critic Karl Kraus (1874–1936). In the…

Lakshmi’s Story

by Vaishali Raode,Translated by P. G. Joshi, R. Raj Rao,

By Vaishali Raode, from Mi Hijra, Mi Lakshmi (“I Am a Hijra, I Am Lakshmi”), an account of the life of Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi, a transgender-rights activist in the Indian…

Other Types of Poison

by Rebecca Makkai,

Three legends

New Books

by Jane Smiley,

The memoir is a tempting but treacherous form. As the English novelist Rachel Cusk writes in Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $20), “Unclothed, truth can be…

The Separating Sickness

by Rebecca Solnit,

How leprosy teaches empathy

Fei Fei

by Liao Yiwu,Translated by Wenguang Huang,

By Liao Yiwu, from For a Song and a Hundred Songs, out next month from New Harvest. Liao, who was born in China in 1958, spent four years in prison…

New Books

by Jane Smiley,

In 1929, Robert Ripley was receiving nearly 3,000 letters a day. As Neal Thompson writes in A Curious Man: The Strange & Brilliant Life of Robert “Believe it or Not!”…

The Revolutionary

by Terry Eagleton,

Is Marx still relevant?

The Unraveling of Bo Xilai

by Lauren Hilgers,

China loses a populist star

Nothing Serious

by Pico Iyer,

P. G. Wodehouse and the costs of innocence

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Life as a Terrorist

A Different Kind of Father

Lakshmi’s Story

Other Types of Poison

New Books

The Separating Sickness

Fei Fei

New Books

The Revolutionary

The Unraveling of Bo Xilai

Nothing Serious

March 2013

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