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Haaretz Lets Novelists Write News, Flotilla Or No Flotilla

  • Seth Fischer
  • June 6, 2010
Last year at about this time, the Israeli paper Haaretz let a bunch of literary writers report the news to celebrate Israel’s book week. Well, they’re doing it again, but…
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Birds Caught in the Oil

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • June 4, 2010
“AP Photographer Charlie Riedel filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island. As BP engineers continue their efforts…
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Bowden On Juárez

  • Michael Berger
  • June 3, 2010
“The way I was trained, reporters went toward the story, just as firemen rush toward the fire. It is a duty. As it happens, I am a coward and would…
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Why Christopher Hitchens Doesn’t Matter

  • Aaron Lake Smith
  • June 2, 2010
Hitchens’ new memoir Hitch-22 is a sprawling self-portrait of a name-dropper and a hanger-on.
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Spill Links

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • June 1, 2010
About time: “Feds open criminal probe of Gulf oil spill.” Director James Cameron, “considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies,” met with scientists and officials from federal…
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Andrei Voznesensky

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • June 1, 2010
“Mr. Voznesensky and poets like Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bella Akhmadulina and Robert Rozhdestvensky burst onto the stage in the cultural ‘thaw’ that followed Stalin’s death in 1953 and rose to extraordinary…
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White Torture

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • May 28, 2010
“After I recanted my false confession, my main interrogator essentially told me he knew I was not a spy. My captors may have wanted to use my false confession to…
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MetaFilter to the Rescue

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • May 24, 2010
“The message thread reads like the play-by-play from an alternate reality game, wherein complete strangers work together to solve a complex mystery. But the drama that played out on MetaFilter…
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Politics Sunday

  • Seth Fischer
  • May 23, 2010
Nick Spicer asks if BP might have something in common with Captain Ahab. Apparently, there was a time  when presidents weren’t all rich guys. How an online community saved two…
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When Should We Publish Horrific Images?

  • Seth Fischer
  • May 23, 2010
“The point of publishing horrific images is to anger, sadden, appall, help us mourn, teach us about the world, and make us feel compelled to act.” — Ruthie Ackerman discusses…
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Swinging in China

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • May 21, 2010
“In private, the professor, Ma Yaohai, 53, led a life that became intolerable to Chinese authorities: for the past six years, he was a member of informal swingers clubs that…
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1,000

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • May 18, 2010
“As of today, 1,000 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan.”
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