News Round Up: best and worst from 8-11 to 8-17

How Laura Poitras helped Snowden spill his secrets: In what I expected to be a look at the decision to publish sensitive security documents and give a leaker a national platform, Peter Maass takes a sort of weird approach to his New York Times Magazine article about the journalists behind the Snowden story. Maass pays …

Review: Domenica Ruta’s With or Without You

Editor's note: This review was published on the Boston Phoenix's Page Views blog just days before the publication's end.  I am thrilled to have contributed one last time before the 60 year old paper came to a close. Domenica Ruta's With or Without You is the autobiographical tale of a junkie's daughter, who navigates her …