Don Delillo's Point Omega.
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Amy Bloom's Where the God of Love Hangs Out.
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James Hansen's Storms of My Grandchildren.
I started reading James Hansen's new book, Storms of My Grandchildren, …
Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas.
The state of higher education in America is one of those things, like …
Salinger: "Recluse" with an ugly history of women
How we've all found a convenient way of avoiding the truth about his …
"The Whale": 500 days of blubber
A new book probes the romantic appeal — and surprisingly kinky sex …
"Voodoo Histories": When smart people believe dumb things
From 9/11 to the moon landing, how conspiracy theories have changed …
Why is braille dying?
In an age of audiobooks, only 10 percent of blind kids learn it. But …
Ralph Ellison's Endless Blues
Why did the acclaimed author of the classic Invisible Man never publish …
The Best of Brit Lit
This week: Martin Amis's latest novel causes a stir in Britain, a …
The Great E-book War
Books were pulled from Amazon this week in a dispute with publishers …
Andrew Young's Revenge
Say this for John Edwards and Andrew Young, the author of a chilling …
Tell The Nation: Voices of the Uninsured
Various Contributors Uninsured Americans have arguably the highest …
How to Get Our Democracy Back
Lawrence Lessig If we want change, we have to change Congress.
Swing Time: On Morris Dickstein
D.D. Guttenplan Morris Dickstein's elegant cultural history of the …
The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget
Magazine Roundup
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk walks her Polish tangle around Amsterdam …
Herta Müller recommends Liu Xiaobo for Nobel Peace Prize
Herta Müller has written to the Nobel Foundation calling for the …
From the Feuilletons
The apathy and the ecstasy
Ueli Bernays traces falsetto's high-pitched pop-musical passage from …
Nether Nether Land
The Dutch get little space in stories we tell of the country's origins, …
Spirited Debate
My brother-in-law bought a liquor store because, you know, Jews have …
Card Snark
Misconstrued cards. Flowers that are just going to die. Oh boy, it's …
In Defense of Elizabeth Gilbert
Everybody trashes Elizabeth Gilbert. Me, I kind of like the idea of …
Bruno Frey and Susanne Neckermann (Zurich): Awards: A Disregarded Source of Motivation. From TED, Sendhil Mullainathan on solving social problems with a nudge. From The Village Voice, an article on the life and death of Alan Carton, 23, the RIAA-defying creator of @diditleak. How not to be an atheist: A review of Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being by Brian Rotman and Bioethics in the Age of New Media by Joanna Zylinska. An ancient Amazon civilisation is laid bare by felled forest. Where politics and democracy fail, nature eventually wins, and a number of tyrants and world leaders are currently sick; Mike Deri Smith surveys and ranks the illest. Shuttles for Sale: Three orbiters in search of good
