From Limina, Bianca Freire-Medeiros (Binghamton): Star in The House of Mirrors: Contrasting images of Carmen Miranda in Brazil and the United States. Would-be prime ministers' wives have them. Lawyers have them. Doctors have them. So how did tattoos become so acceptable? The history of daft naming: We seem to have entered an era of weightless names – names without cultural or historical baggage. From The Economist, the capitalism of magic: The wand in Adam Smith’s invisible hand is revealed. A review of In a Cardboard Belt! Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage by Joseph Epstein. A review of (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions by Steve Almond (and more and more and more and more). From The Wilson Quarterly, Coasting: Life’s hard lessons and simple pleasures are learned where the land meets the sea. Voyage of the ducks: After a 15-year epic ocean voyage that took them halfway around the world, the last of an intrepid armada of cute plastic bath toys is finally washing up on shore in the United Kingdom.
