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Shane Bauer: Out of Iran, investigating America's prison system

For two hellish years, the Iranian government held Shane Bauer prisoner on suspicion of being a spy. The worst part, he now says, was the four months he spent in a solitary cell. But since his release, Bauer has been surprised to discover even more troubling prison practices happening on American so ... More >>

Oregon Trail: Minnesota inventors play the new Facebook game [VIDEO]

The inventors answer the question, 'Is Oregon Trail on Facebook as good as the original?'​This week, Oregon Trail on Facebook went live. As we explained in our January cover story, it's been 40 years since three Minnesotans invented the most successful educational computer game of all time. Th ... More >>

Oregon Trail on Facebook: Screenshots and video

Maybe you can just ignore that friend request from dysentery. ​The world's most popular educational game will soon arrive on the world's most popular social network--Oregon Trail is being reborn on Facebook. When we interviewed the three Minnesotans who invented the game 40 years ago for our Janu ... More >>

Oregon Trail: How three Minnesotans forged its path

It's one of the most popular educational games of all time

Bonnie Blodgett

Paul Tough

The Case of the Very Large Closet

Comic-strip artist Alison Bechdel draws a messy portrait of her secretive father and the house where he hid

Rain Man-ager

Rain Man-ager

The Ghost Writer

Why does Philip Roth's latest novel read like Arthur Miller?

Don't Say A Word

What we talk about when we don't talk

Carlo Rotella: Cut Time: An Education at the Fights

Woe, Canada

A short polemic against the annexation of Canada

Road To Odessa

Jonathan Safran Foer's comic road novel careens across the literary landscape

Hold the Fries

From flavor factories to modern-day sharecropping, author Eric Schlosser looks at the supersize mess created by our Fast Food Nation

Edna O'Brien: Wild Decembers

Philip Roth: The Human Stain

Bride of Frankenstein

Anchee Min's novel Becoming Madame Mao puts a human face on a historical monster

Reading Aloud, Naturally

Here's how to make the simplest stories jump right off the page

School Daze

The Case Against Competition

How We Lose the Race to Win

Virtuous Calamity

Stories of polar exploration are filled with stoic heroism. But what's so courageous about icy shipwrecks, corpses, and dogmeat dinners?

Hate and Marriage

Philip Roth's latest novel, I Married a Communist, examines the politics of personal betrayal

Eat the Revolution

Thomas Beller, editor: Personals: Dreams and Nightmares from the Lives of 20 Young Writers

How the west was lost

David Leavitt: The Page Turner

Saving Grace

Produce Results

Tongue Untied

Poet Paul Beatty makes polyglot Americana with his debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle.

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