From TLS, an article on Wordsworth's hidden arguments: From egotism to epic, how the poet's inspired "breathings" contain the world that surrounds him; and a review of Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture. Conversation Starter: Out of the dregs of the seventeenth-century French culture, Mme de Rambouillet, the bride of a mediocre Marquis, invented the unlikely prototype of the literary saloon. What's all this debate for anyway? Plato, Rousseau, Mill, Arendt and Habermas debate. From The New York Observer, Philip Gourevitch is young, attractive, socially ambitious and successful. And it’s his job to make George Plimpton’s Paris Review remarkable again in an era that no longer produces George Plimptons. Slate is set to launch a business site. Is hideous blather, page after page of it, any way to celebrate the 150th birthday of the Atlantic Monthly, one of the best magazines ever published in this great land of ours? Josh Levin on what's wrong with Sports Illustrated and how to fix it. The Washington Times is looking for a new executive editor, and the job description seems to call for someone with almost superhuman qualities. The introduction to Liberty and the News by Walter Lippmann.
