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A debate on the future of voting technology with Stephen Ansolabehere, Lloyd Cutler, Robert Michel, Donna Brazile, and others. Josh Cohen interviews missile defense critic Ted Postol. James Campbell on the troubled history of the Nobel Prize for literature; James Sallis on the Collected Stories of Patricia Highsmith. Plus, Calvin Bedient reviews Frederick Seidel; fiction by Mary Hanna, poetry by James Tate and D. A. Powell; John Summers on Louis Menand’s The Metaphysical Club, and more.
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