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Lilley was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) right out of Yale, and his dozen postings included Laos, Hong Kong and Beijing, where with Mao's consent he was the first U.S. intelligence attach? to Communist China. Lilley has little positive to say about the CIA's activities in...
Wallace, who hasn't put out a novel since his brilliant, dense Infinite Jest in 1996 (or any other fiction at all in five years), takes it easy on the reader here. Sure, his three-page-long sentences can make Faulkner look like Hemingway, and even short sentences can require...
Even the stories that meander in their own cleverness until they are bogged down in Wallace's detail-obsessive word marsh are still breathtakingly smart, like a middling Stoppard play. Strange, then, is the self-doubt that creeps into most of the tales, often in the form of acknowledging potential...
Yet, printed evidence aside, there's no doubt Polly Jean Harvey deserves the G word somewhere near her name. Over the course of seven albums, she has never written a bad song. Not one. That would be an amazing streak for a commercial hitmaker, but it's even more impressive...
The U.S. military has taken heat lately for holding and in some cases abusing innocent civilians in its prisons abroad. But at least one Guantanamo detainee, Taliban commander Mullah Shahzada, has proved anything but harmless. Soon after he was released last July--military officials believed there was no cause to...