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Internationally celebrated authors talk with A.O. Scott of The New York Times: Martin Amis (The Pregnant Widow and the upcoming Lionel Asbo: The State of England), Margaret Atwood (The… More
Life in the Panopticon: Thoughts on Freedom in an Era of Pervasive Surveillance
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