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August 30, 2010

Clandestine in Chile

The nonfiction work by Colombian Nobelist Gabriel García Márquez recounts the dangerous undercover exploits of filmmaker Miguel Littín, who snuck back into his homeland—after being exiled by Augusto Pinochet—in order secretly to craft a documentary about the conditions there.

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May 24: Joseph Brodsky was born on this day in 1940 in Leningrad. Brodsky's constitutional skepticism was not compatible with the official Soviet alternatives, and by age twenty-five he was in prison, wrapped in cold, wet sheets as…

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In the Margin

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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