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Kevin Canfield is a writer in New York. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Film Comment, Bookforum, and other publications.
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The Sinister Scientist Behind the CIA’s Mind-Control Mayhem
BAD CHEMISTRYA new book digs deep into the horrifying career of Sidney Gottlieb, the scientist who ran the CIA's damaging and possibly lethal experiments in drug-induced mind control.

He Went Down the Manson Rabbit Hole and Barely Escaped
CHASING SHADOWSIn 1999, author Tom O’Neill accepted a magazine request to write about the Manson murders. Twenty years later, he’s still on the case.

The Cold Case That Haunted ‘Black Hawk Down’ Author
TRUE CRIMEIn 1975, two Maryland girls went missing. Forty years later, a break in the case lured the ‘Black Hawk Down’ author back to investigate a story he’d covered as a young reporter.

Freed Iranian Hostage: 'They Messed With the Wrong Guy.'
ORDEALThe more time Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and his wife spent in an Iranian prison, the clearer it became that he was being jailed for doing his job.

FBI’s Spying on Writers Was Literary Criticism at Its Worst
FUNNY BUT FRIGHTENINGAccording to the nation’s top cops, James Baldwin was a ‘pervert,’ Norman Mailer was ‘difficult to read,’ and Susan Sontag was ‘subversive.’

The Selfie Isn’t the Problem. We Are.
KalokagathiaTechnology may be amplifying our egotism, but its roots go way, way back, a new book argues.

College Football Should Just Go Pro
DISGRACEDA new book argues that football booster clubs, tax exemptions, and academic hypocrisy have so thoroughly tainted college football that any remedies or reforms may be too late.

Here’s How to Fix Trump’s Border Wall
Good FencesThere are already 650 miles of walls and other barriers on the U.S.-Mexican border, so it’s not like we don’t know what works and what doesn’t. So let’s get constructive about the construction.

One Day: Ten Kids, Ten Guns, Ten Deaths
Gun CultureSelecting one fall day in 2013, reporter Gary Younge exposes the toll of gun violence in the U.S. by focusing on the lives of 10 children across the country who were shot to death.

How Senior Citizens Almost Stole Nukes
TROUBLINGAuthor Dan Zak talks about the strange case of three elderly activists who easily broke into ‘the Fort Knox of Uranium’ in 2012.
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