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Let Us Now Praise KJV
This year marks the four hundredth anniversary of an influential translation of the Bible. Scott McLemee hears echoes of it everywhere.
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Our Zombies, Ourselves
A new book considers the international policy implications of a siege by the cannibalistic undead. Scott McLemee aims for the head.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
Did new media inspire the recent wave of uprisings? Or will Facebook yet prove a dictator's best friend? Scott McLemee checks on the debate.
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The Critic's Demon
Nona Balakian was an editor at The New York Times Book Review who joined its staff in the 1940s, after...
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Reload
Why is gun control controversial? Scott McLemee wonders while waiting for the next massacre.
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Female Complaints
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" is a feminist classic. Scott McLemee looks into the story behind the story.
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The Year in Reading
Was there a book that rocked your world in 2010? Scott McLemee asks around.
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That's Offensive!
Late last month, following a protest by House G.O.P. leader John Boehner and the Catholic League president William Donohue over...