Books

Why Barack Obama Is Still Your New Bicycle

San Francisco writer and meme creator Mathew Honan explains BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com, Twitter publicity, and what it's like to have the Obama campaign favorite his photo on Flickr.

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| Tue Aug. 5, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Book Review: War Nerd

Does it matter if controversial military columnist Gary Brecher is really an overweight data-entry clerk from Fresno?

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| Mon Aug. 4, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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First Person: Excerpts from The Beat Within

Personal essays from prostitutes, gang members, and other incarcerated teenagers.

Wed Jul. 30, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Why Prisons Banned This Magazine

What did—and didn't—get past Texas prison mail room censors last year

Mon Jul. 21, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

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Book Review: A Nuclear Family Vacation

Authors Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger provide a guided tour to atomic weaponry tourism, from nuclear labs to blast-proof bunkers (including Dick Cheney's rumored "undisclosed location").

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| Tue Jul. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Book Review: This Land Is Their Land

Barbara Ehrenreich's no garden-variety pessimist on health care, Wal-Mart, and the superrich. She's a full-fledged member of the glass-has-only-one-drop-left cohort.

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| Tue Jul. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Digging Through the Scott McClellan Tell-All

Clips from the former White House press secretary's new book. Wow. "If anything, the national press corps was probably too...

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| Wed May. 28, 2008 7:29 AM PDT
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Book Excerpt: The Family

A journey beneath the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power.

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| Tue May. 20, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Primary Sources: The WWII Ration Book

Our current issue on energy includes a timeline of energy milestones from 1748 to the present. In researching the tale...

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| Tue May. 13, 2008 4:29 PM PDT

Books: Shelf Help for Mother's Day

If their "Mother's Day Shopping Guide" is any indication, Barnes and Noble takes a rather dim view of maternal reading habits. Categories that warrant 40 percent off before Sunday include: "Biographies and Memoirs," "Food and Wine," "Homes and Hobbies," "New Fiction," and "Self-Improvement, Inspiration, and Humor.' But the pink ghetto in Borders may win this week's catfight. A quick stroll past the Mom-bait table...

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| Tue May. 6, 2008 8:19 PM PDT
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Books: Scrapbook of the Stateless

Acclaimed photojournalist Susan Meiselas revisited Kurdistan. Here's what she found.

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| Thu May. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Books: Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids

A review of Julie Salamon's book on our fragmented health care

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| Thu May. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Books: Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias

A review of Andrew Blechman's look at seniors, sex, and STDs

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| Thu May. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Books: Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself

A review of Amy Richards' book on child care, fertility, and the mommy wars

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| Thu May. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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The Myth of the Moral Majority

Here's the church. Here's the steeple. Open the doors and—hey, where did all the evangelicals go?

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| Thu May. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Love Bites: An Interview With Toby Barlow

The author of the future cult novel <i>Sharp Teeth</i> talks about his tale of werewolves in Los Angeles.

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| Tue Apr. 15, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

The Apex of Slavery

Benjamin Skinner went undercover in Istanbul to negotiate the purchase of slaves from human traffickers. What he found was a thriving trade in human misery.

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| Thu Mar. 27, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Book Review: <i>The Man Who Pushed America to War</i>

Who is Ahmad Chalabi, really? A scheming manipulator, a corrupt businessman, a political visionary, or all of the above?

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| Wed Mar. 19, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Iranian Agent of Influence? An Interview with Author of New Ahmad Chalabi Biography

Emmy award-winning investigative journalist Aram Roston, a producer with the NBC Nightly News, has just published a biography of...

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| Tue Mar. 18, 2008 5:14 AM PDT

Book Review: Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

Amy Irvine struggles to find her place among the cowboys and Mormons of Utah's red-rock country.

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| Mon Mar. 10, 2008 12:00 AM PDT