"Lewis, a lawyer who helped shepherd those cases through the State Department, the Pentagon, interagency task forces, and federal habeas litigation, makes clear that Guantánamo is part of an offshore detention regime built to evade ordinary adjudication, nourished by unverified intelligence, and maintained as a result of politics. As he shows how a small Middle Eastern state learned to negotiate with America's security bureaucracy, the limits of litigation become painfully apparent;"
"This sensitive début depicts the Chinese internet as a kind of "walled garden," closed off from the outside world, pruned by government censors, yet filled with life. Liu, a Hong Kong-born journalist, profiles people on the fringes of Chinese society-a feminist activist, a gay entrepreneur, a sci-fi writer, a rapper-who find purpose and community online even as the space for free expression narrows."
Kuwait negotiated the release of twelve citizens from Guantánamo, revealing an offshore detention regime designed to evade ordinary adjudication. The regime relied on unverified intelligence and political maintenance, making litigation ineffective and releases dependent on diplomacy, travel bans, and surveillance assurances. China's internet grew from a 1995 private provider into a walled garden used by over a billion people, constrained by censors but providing community and purpose for marginalized figures. Foreign portrayals simplify citizens as enablers or victims, while real interactions show a dynamic push and pull between state control and individual expression. A translated novel centers on a nameless narrator grieving loss.
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