From The New York Review of Books, The Stasi on Our Minds: Timothy Garton Ash reviews " The Lives of Others", a film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Das Leben der anderen: Filmbuch; and a review of The Coast of Utopia, a trilogy by Tom Stoppard. From LRB, a review of Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006 by Gore Vidal.
Falling Man's Precarious Balance: Don DeLillo's 9/11 novel is a powerful tale without heroic sentimentalism. In the shadow of the towers: A review of Falling Man by Don DeLillo. Code Red: Don DeLillo, the literary master of the terrorist’s imagination, reaches for the ultimate subject; and a guide to the DeLillo oeuvre. Prospect's Thomas Pynchon correspondent Kamran Nazeer is battling his way through Against the Day—and recording the experience.
From Three Monkeys Online, Dantean Echoes: An article on the influence of Dante on Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney; if you're looking for the place where Michael Jackson intersects with Al-Qaeda, look no further than Algerian born novelist Aziz Chouaki's The Star of Algiers; Irish journalist/novelist Declan Lynch places the 'demon drink' firmly, and unrepentantly at the centre of his debut novel The Rooms; and an interview with John Haskell, author of American Purgatorio.
From Ralph, a review of Goodnight, Texas; a review of A Ho-Chunk Autobiography: American Indian Courtship; a review of Cycles of Time and Meaning: In the Mexican Books of Fate; a review of Essays by Lia Purpura; and a reading on The Zen Monks and The Governor. From 3:AM, Charlotte Stretch reviews James Hopkin’s Winter Under Water; Italo Mariconi and Flávio Carneiro debate the Brazilian Offbeat Generation; and Ben Richards talks to A. Stevens about his career as a novelist and screenwriter. From Radar, arthouse queen Miranda July gets literary. From The Sun, a short story: "The Apology" by J.R. Helton pdf.
From PopMatters, a review of The End of the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life. What happened when Emily Yoffe followed The Secret's advice for two months. Here's an online edition of Swink magazine, including an essay on The Stiff Jew and a look at how Data Will Save Us.
Rupert, White Knight: Murdoch and News Corp. come not to destroy The Wall Street Journal but to save it. A look at how Keith Olbermann's popularity and evolving image as an ideologue has led NBC News to stretch traditional notions of journalistic objectivity (and two responses from Salon). From Cracked, here are sincere answers to common spam mail. And research finds banner ads work — even if you don't notice them at all
