March 2012
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In the Zone
Geoff Dyer’s Zona is sort of about Tarkovsky’s Stalker, but mostly it’s about getting lost in a film.
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“I’m Mitt Romney and Probo hoc Nuntius”
Advice from ancient Rome for the 2012 presidential candidates.
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Trail of Tears
After her mother died, Cheryl Strayed left for the Pacific Crest Trail, a world “two feet wide and 2,663 miles long.”
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The King of the Delirious Professions
The critic John Leonard brought a scimitar to a knife fight.
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Joe Spork Gets Clocked
Nick Harkaway’s big, funny Angelmaker sends its unassuming clockmaker hero on the adventure of a lifetime.
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The Lives of Others
A disgraced professor becomes obsessed with the therapy patient next door in Ellen Ullman’s By Blood.
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Coyote Stole My Baby
Hari Kunzru’s sprawling, messy dreamscape of a novel explores the myths and mysteries of the Mojave.
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No Fighting in the Money Room
Obama’s economic team failed—and still produced the best possible result.
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Elephant and Piggie Peer Into the Void
A tribute to the most existentially terrifying kids’ book ever written.
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Portrait of the Monster as a Young Man
This month’s cartoonist Derf Backderf and his fascinating new graphic novel, My Friend Dahmer.
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Introducing the Slate Book Review
Slate goes big on books with a new monthly special issue.
