You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting
Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.
Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / David Auerbach
In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules
Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Stalker Stalker
For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”
Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Shawn Francis Peters’s The Catonsville Nine.
Jan 23, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Mark Oppenheimer
Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti
The tension between the personal and the political permeates new books on Haiti by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan M. Katz.
Jan 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Madison Smartt Bell
Off-Key: On Paul Elie Off-Key: On Paul Elie
Can recordings of classical music ever be in concert with concert hall performances?
Dec 31, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell
Suspicious Minds: On Timothy Melley Suspicious Minds: On Timothy Melley
How thrillers inform spycraft, and the fictions that belie them both.
Dec 19, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Edward Luttwack’’s The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy
Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Wertheim
After the Euphoria: On the Arab Uprisings After the Euphoria: On the Arab Uprisings
What are the new rules of the political game in the Middle East? Nobody knows, but Marc Lynch’s The Arab Uprising is a useful guide.
Oct 16, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Cockburn
Exit Stage Left: The FBI and Student Radicals Exit Stage Left: The FBI and Student Radicals
How in 1960s Berkeley the state waged a two-front war to stamp out opponents, real and imagined, to its rule.
Oct 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Steve Wasserman