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What will happen to Caster Semenya if it turns out that some part of her anatomy or biochemistry does not conform to a biological picture of sex in which internal, external, and chromosomal status all match?

Dominique Browning asks why somebody won’t think of the children?

Mark Penn continues to embarrass the WSJ, Venezuela cracks down on publishers, the poetry of Shimon Peres, and more.

In 1982, David Wyatt analyzed where the Star Wars franchise was headed. We asked him to consider how his forecast turned out.

Amidst all the excitement of the Roths and Moores and Chabons we should not forget about Lydia Davis, whose Collected Stories comes out in one month.

Rarely have I witnessed such a countdown for a new novel from a female writer as I have with Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs.

Drunken Boat’s editor arrested, Lopate appreciates the under-appreciated, NYTBR on the MJ, and more.

Part workshop, part retreat, part lecture, it hibernates for much of the year in university English departments and home offices, emerging for a week or two at the height of the summer before scuttling back to its lair.

Inglourious Basterds, stalagim, Eurabia-mongers, Don DeLillo’s Point Omega, and more.