In posthumously published Mortality, Christopher Hitchens attempts desire voiced in Hitch-22.
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What’s Up With Naomi Wolf’s Vagina?
Rounding up the best reviews of the controversial and widely panned book
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Ghosts of Ballots Past
On Rick Hasen’s riveting look at voting wars since Florida—and the anguished history of how we got there in the first place
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No Touchdown for Paterno Biography
Joe Posnanski’s new book on the Penn State coach fails to hold him accountable for the Sandusky scandal.
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The Long Arc of Gore Vidal
The prolific man of letters spent the last decades of his life tarnishing his own reputation—but what a reputation it was.
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The London Games
A new book sheds light on the ruins that always lie in an Olympics’s wake.
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Out of Work, Out of Luck
The government has the tools to help remedy the jobs crisis, so why isn’t it doing anything?
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Why “Knowing How the Economy Works” Is Not Enough
The presidency is not a technocratic position.