April 2012

Slate Book Review

Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams Attached to Their Heads

Inside the egghead circus at Bell Labs. READ MORE »

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    Rachel Maddow proposes solutions to decades of American military bloat.

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    Margaret Thatcher had all the authority in her relationship with Ronald Reagan—and none of the power.

  • 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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    Nescio, the frustrated shipping clerk who became a beloved Dutch literary hero.

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    Art Spiegelman tells the story of how Topps’ gross, awesome parody stickers were born.

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    This month’s cartoonist Pat Grant and his weird and woolly new graphic novel Blue.