From CRB, is there intelligent life on television? A review essay by Paul Cantor. From TLS, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto reviews Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850 to 1940: Continental Exploration by Raymond John Howgego; a review of A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy; and a review of books on Henry VIII. A mind for the arts: Philosopher Denis Dutton explores the creative impulse (and more and more and more; and a review of The Art Instinct at Bookforum). From NYRB, can we transform the auto-industrial society? Emma Rothschild investigates; and an interview with Robert Malley on how not to make peace in the Middle East. From The New Yorker, a review of James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile by Magdalena Zaborowska; James Surowiecki on the myth of the moral hazard; that buzzing sound: Jerome Groopman on the mystery of tinnitus; Roger Angell on editing John Updike (and more by Adam Gopnik). From New York, three pages a day: An article on John Updike’s permanent present tense; and a look at how Captain Chesley Sullenberger might have officially brought the golden age of the heroic pilot to a close. From The New York Observer, a review of Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale by Chris Ayres; and the Beast that roared (for a while!): Could it be that Tina Brown’s new site is a victim of its own relentless buzz?
