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At age seventeen, Lorne Campbell was the youngest person to ever join the Satan's Choice motorcycle gang. Unrepentant, a new book by Peter Edwards, tells the story of Campbell—now in his 60s—from his violent upbringing and hard-partying ways, to a relentless dedication to the biker lifestyle.

Chinua Achebe, Nelson Mandela said, "brought Africa to the rest of the world." Poet Jackie Kay called him "the grandfather of African fiction." In commemoration of Achebe, who has died at the age of 82, we publish his essay "Africa is People," from his 2010 collection, The Education of a British-Protected Child.

In this excerpt from his book The Dictator's Learning Curve, William J. Dobson looks back at the conditions that made it possible for Hugo Chavez to win power democratically, and then wield it the way he did.

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land. An excerpt from Thomas King's latest book, The Inconvenient Indian.

You don't have to look far in North American culture to find Dead Indians. 'Dead' as in the idea of something that never really existed. From film characters to rodeos and sports teams' mascots—even in how Native leaders represent themselves to the white world—buckskin and a feathered headdress are ever handy signifiers of Indian authenticity. In this excerpt from his new book, The Inconvenient Indian, King surveys the history of the Dead Indian in white culture.

On Michel Houellebecq and his novel Platform—and sex, and hatred, and despair. Taken from Barnes' latest work, Through the Window, a collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his career.