From Vanity Fair, surveying Fannie Mae’s deeply dysfunctional relationships with Congress, the White House, and Wall Street, Bethany McLean tells of the long, vicious war — involving most of Washington’s top players — that helped propel one of the world’s most successful companies off. A review of Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace by Steve Fraser. Here's the online version of Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine. An excerpt from The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics. A review of books in search of the God neuron. The Episcopal Church's promotion of an openly gay clergyman has created a serious rift within the religious community, threatening the future of the denomination. Oops! She crashed it again: Why celebrities are such bad drivers. After realizing that being a freedom fighter with the Karen National Union may not be the best way to bring peace to his country, a Burmese man explores the many facets of revolutionary action. A review of The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson. A review of The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian Fagan. A review of Savannah Knoop’s Girl Boy Girl: Becoming JT Leroy. A review of Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism by Rebecca Stein.