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Ange Mlinko: Gary Lutz, 7 May 2020

The Complete Gary Lutz 
by Gary Lutz.
Tyrant, 500 pp., £15, December 2019, 978 1 7335359 1 5
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... After​ reading five hundred pages of Gary Lutz, I opened Google Maps and took a long, hard look at the state where he was born: Pennsylvania, the ‘Keystone State’, although it’s shaped more like a ticket stub fished from a back pocket, is entirely recognisable in his descriptions. ‘I lived in a town that had sourceless light falling over it at all hours ...

Guns, Money and Opium

Laleh Khalili, 19 February 2026

The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces 
by Seth Harp.
Viking, 357 pp., £22.50, August 2025, 978 0 593 65508 5
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... owned by the CIA – and captured the pilot. Only years later did investigative reports by Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury reveal the part the drug trade played in the funding of the Contras. Webb’s reports were strenuously denied by the CIA and derided by the mainstream press. He died in an apparent suicide in 2004 after his career collapsed, a ...

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