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Amid the collective Middle East nightmare, a few notes on candidates should Abbas step down. Marines' PowerPoint, made for other marines, about the softer side of counterinsurgency. Instapaper for the commute: Riveting story of the feared Texas judge indicted for sex crimes. See also: Is it wrong to wear
Colum McCann wins a National Book Award, and he’s not complaining about it.
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For a generation of young writers, Joan Didion is more than an icon: She tells them how the world was when their parents were young.
“Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.” A new novel exposes that truth.
A new compendium by a journalist who’s spent the last two decades visiting earth’s various hells.
