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By David Kaiser As three recent studies by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) show, prisoners are raped with terrible frequency in the United States. We still don't know exactly how many people are sexually abused behind bars every year, but w

One of the running jokes in On Beauty, Zadie Smith’s third novel, is that its main character is philosophically opposed to beauty. Howard Belsey is a professor of art history at Wellington College, and like all middle-aged professors in campus novels, h

By Michael Tomasky It's chastening to think back to the predictions being made last summer about health care reform, and the assumptions that were widely shared in Washington at the time (certainly by me). Reform would face challenges, and it would never

By Darren Franich As DC Comics turns 75, Darren Franich wants an answer: Which classic character is No. 1? Go!

Raymond Carver: Collected Stories By Raymond Carver (Library of America, 1019 pp., $40) Raymond Carver: A Writer’s LifeBy Carol Sklenicka (Scribner, 578 pp., $35) In the summer of 1984, the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and his wife traveled to the

Lourdes Palisades Tartan Harlan--In the Shadow of “Jew Süss” Zeitgeist Films The Art of the Steal Sundance Selects Catholic churches are where Catholic people go to pray. The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes is where Catholic people go fo

By Thom Geier Hilary Mantel's Tudor-era novel takes fiction prize from National Book Critics Circle; see list of winners in all categories

Imagine a new Library of Alexandria. Imagine an archive that contains all the natural and social sciences of the West—our source-critical, referenced, peer-reviewed data—as well as the cultural and literary heritage of the world's civilizations, and m

Reference Books First-Place Winner Barbara Passino CHOCOLATE FOR BREAKFAST, Entertaining Menus to Start the Day with a Celebration, from Napa Valley's Oak Knoll Inn ecookbooks.com Napa Valley CA Honorable Mention Julie and Mike Neal The Com

The search for sublimity in the city is one of the most traditional quests of modernity. Urban life is a sacrifice of nature for culture, but it is not obvious that culture can provide the same exaltations as nature. When I saw Manhattan from 17,000 feet

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