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Joel Whitney is a founding editor of Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics. In 2003, he was awarded a Discovery/The Nation Prize by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation for his poetry.

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One of my favorite nonfiction books from 2009 was Mark Dowie's Conservation Refugees. The definition of wilderness brought over from Europe by the likes of John Muir ensured tha...

11:05 pm, Jan 10, 2010

I like Media Matters for America, although they take everything so literally. When President Obama's team teased Fox News for its imaginative use of facts, commentators repeated...

10:59 pm, Nov 4, 2009

My Guantánamo Diary by Mahvish Khan. Imagine that a young idealistic American who happened to speak Pashto had been let inside Guantánamo to interview prisoners? M...

7:05 pm, Jun 10, 2009

Double X is a new site "written mostly for women, but not only for them." It grew out of Slate's Double X blog, launched to cover the presidential election through the lens of w...

7:06 pm, May 14, 2009