April 2012
Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams Attached to Their Heads
Inside the egghead circus at Bell Labs. READ MORE »
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Studies Abroad
How did visits to Paris shape Jacqueline Bouvier, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis?
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Bullet Points
Rachel Maddow proposes solutions to decades of American military bloat.
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Ronnie and Maggie
Margaret Thatcher had all the authority in her relationship with Ronald Reagan—and none of the power.
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We Need to Talk About a Revolution
A corporate lawyer pitches it all to cover armed insurgency in Lionel Shriver’s long-delayed comedy of terrorism.
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Trapped Behind a Desk
Nescio, the frustrated shipping clerk who became a beloved Dutch literary hero.
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Beauty and Violence
Paisley Rekdal’s poetry explores the effect humans have on the natural world—and vice versa.
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Garbage Pail Kids
Art Spiegelman tells the story of how Topps’ gross, awesome parody stickers were born.
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Surfing With the Aliens
This month’s cartoonist Pat Grant and his weird and woolly new graphic novel Blue.
