Monthly Archive: January, 2016

Victor Mair’s new translation of The Art of War offers a bold new rendition of a classic work of strategy and Ancient Chinese thought. In this interview, Mair discusses the enduring appeal of the work and what distinguishes his translation:nnQ:...

The following is an interview with Jonathan H. Mack, Psy.D. In The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper, Mack identifies and analyzes the underlying clinical psychological and behavioral processes that led to Malvo’s dissociation and turn toward serial...

nnThe following is an interview with Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero, authors of Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. In the interview, Loxton and Prothero consider, among other things, the phenomenon of cryptozoology and...

The following is an interview with Wendy Law-Yone, author of A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma:nnQuestion: Why did you decide to write a memoir of your father’s life as opposed to a more conventional biography?nnWendy Law-Yone: A conventional biography would have required...

n n n n nnThe following is an interview with Seth Kunin, author of Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity among the Crypto-Jews.nnQ: What is crypto-Judaism?nnSeth Kunin: Crypto-Jews are individuals who claim to be descended from Jews who were forcibly (and...

The following is a Q&A between Grzegorz W. Kolodko, author of Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World and William R. Brand, the book’s translator.nnWilliam Brand: This is an exceptionally wide-ranging book that looks far into...