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...that he meant what he said: "For the first time in its history," she writes, "the United States sanctioned government officials to physically and psychologically torment U.S.-held captives, making torture the official law of the land in all but name." The author, an investigative reporter for the New Yorker, meticulously demonstrates that the Administration, fully aware that as many as a third of the detainees in Guantánamo may have had no connection to terrorism, still proceeded with medieval treatment that the Red Cross warned was "categorically" torture. Mayer's work (nearly 400 pages of sometimes graphic detail...
From politicians and journalists to cartoonists and comedians, the July 21 cover of the New Yorker, which depicts Barack Obama and his wife as fist-bumping, flag-burning terrorists in the Oval Office, set off a flurry of heated reactions the day it hit newsstands...
David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, likening the cover to comedian Stephen Colbert's mocking portrayal of a right-wing newscaster...
Books about how to read fiction are a thriving business. This summer also brings us Thomas C. Foster on How to Read Novels Like a Professor (Harper; 304 pages) and John Mullan on How Novels Work (Oxford; 346 pages), though Wood, as a book critic for the New Yorker, is the heavyweight of the field. These books fall into the curious netherworld of extra-academic literary theory. They are the last, depleted descendants of what used to be called aesthetics, the branch of philosophy that theorized the human response to works of art. For most intents and purposes, aesthetics collapsed...
...even as golden arches and Slurpees pervade every corner of Seoul, this city remains distinctly Korean—starting with its people. To a New Yorker coming to Korea by way of Harvard, human interaction in Seoul takes place on a whole different level. Courtesy among strangers is expected, rather than pleasantly surprising. In the haggle-only markets, transactions manage to take place with an air of cordiality, and more than once I’ve walked away from getting ripped off for a shirt or pair of sunglasses with a smile on my face. In the still significant number...