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Casablanca at 70 30 Sep 2012 | 04:12 am
The first thing a New York Times reader would have learned about Casablanca was that Humphrey Bogart would be replacing Ronald Reagan as the leading man. Reagan, it was reported, had been called up fo...
Mental Floss Spy Pieces 30 Sep 2012 | 04:04 am
Last week, I wrote a series of articles for Mental Floss detailing fun spy trivia. Enjoy! 6 Spy Agency Websites for Children. (Really.) 5 Secret Spy Tunnels Around the World 7 Ingenius Hidden Spy Came...
5 Remarkable Things Discovered Under Parking Lots 13 Sep 2012 | 11:39 pm
There’s more to the common parking lot than broken beer bottles and fender benders from that guy who was texting. Oceans of asphalt, it seems, are hiding an astonishing trove of archeological treasure...
On the Foreign Terrorist Organization List 13 Sep 2012 | 11:34 pm
Last week, the U.S. State Department placed the Haqqani network on its list of foreign terrorist organizations. This comes after years of violence by the group against American, NATO, and Afghan force...
No Easy Day and Secrecy Hypocrisy 9 Sep 2012 | 04:32 am
The Pentagon is having paroxysms over No Easy Day, by Matt Bissonnette (writing as Mark Owen), which hit bookstores earlier this week. “Let’s cut through it,” said George Little, the Pentagon press se...
No Easy Day and Secrecy Hypocrisy 9 Sep 2012 | 04:32 am
The Pentagon is having paroxysms over No Easy Day, by Matt Bissonnette (writing as Mark Owen), which hit bookstores earlier this week. “Let’s cut through it,” said George Little, the Pentagon press se...
Housekeeping 27 Aug 2012 | 09:33 am
Expect the site to be a bit of a mess as I migrate over to the new design.
Nine Months, Art, and Parenthood 24 Aug 2012 | 11:40 pm
One third of the way into Nine Months, by Paula Bomer, I jotted in a page’s margin, “If you write about this book, do not use the cliche ‘unflinching.’ (But that is the right word.)” … Read more →
Nine Months, Art, and Parenthood 24 Aug 2012 | 11:40 pm
Over at The Atlantic, I interview Paula Bomer about her debut novel, Nine Months. A snippet: One third of the way into Nine Months, by Paula Bomer, I jotted in a page’s margin, “If you write about th...
The Failures of Government Secrecy 16 Aug 2012 | 01:33 pm
Over at The Week, I write about the metaphysical stupidity of government secrecy policy. No one has ever described the classification policies of the American government as nimble, effective, or even ...
