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A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions.

How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained; Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse

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News and Analysis

The new senator from Massachusetts has the savvy and guts to take on big (and ungrateful) finance. 

torture protest

Zero Dark Thirty has us arguing over whether torture works, not whether it should be banned.

Weldon Angelos

Cases like that of Weldon Angelos, who was given a 55-year sentence for selling marijuana, cry out for mercy. But calls for clemency have fallen on deaf ears.

Chuck Hagel

Rarely has the McCarthyite smear of “anti-Semitism” been revealed to be so empty as in the case of Obama’s DoD nominee.

A decade after Illinois Governor George Ryan emptied death row and pardoned four innocent men who were tortured by police under Commander Jon Burge, the city of Chicago has not admitted to its collective crimes.

The track record of Obama's Treasury secretary nominee shows his financial incompetence and support for radical deregulation, leaving little hope that he will reign in Wall Street.

An election campaign billboard of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The upcoming Knesset elections mark the culmination of settler dominance over the country's politics.

Advertisement for abortion in South Africa

Long waits and too few providers are consigning more and more women to illegal abortions.

Eric Alterman

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