From The New York Review of Magazines, eat right, exercise & lose weight fast with these pills: The untoned underbellies of fitness mags; Independent Writers of the World, Unite! Health care is so overrated; The Weekly Standard vs. The New Republic: An article on the battle of the Iraq blogger; going postal: Time Warner hits small mags where it hurts; and Birth of a Salesman: NYRM tries (kinda) to go commercial. From Forbes, a special report on The Celebrity 100. Navigating the blogosphere can be trying: Vanity Fair has charted the most influential or amusing blogs about politics, gossip, Hollywood, media, and miscellany. From Skeptic, a look at how skeptics confronted 9/11 denialism. Can a novelist write too well? Allan Massie investigates. Carla Blumenkranz reviews Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner. The prodigy market in China: Thirty-two years after the end of its Cultural Revolution, China is buzzing with once-forbidden Western classical music activity. An article on Craigslist's unorthodox path. An interview with Andy Austin, on the job as courtroom sketch artist. So that no future president skips over the fine, excessively wordy print, we should update the Bill of Rights so it sounds a bit more, shall we say, awesome. A visit with the hardest working comedian in Dubai. Do all languages have a common ancestor? Murray Gell-Mann wants to know.
