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In 1995, Laura Miller helped to co-found Salon.com. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the Last Word column for two years. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. She is the author of “The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia” (Little, Brown, 2008) and the editor of “The Salon.com Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Authors” (Penguin, 2000). She lives in New York.

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“The Psychopath Test”: Madmen among us

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