A new issue of Lost it out. From the Journal of Third World Studies, a review essay on Africa in the neo-liberal world (dis)order; and a review of From Pilgrimage to Package Tour: Travel and Tourism in the Third World by David Gladstone. Who will throw the book at the Bushies? If Congress won't, these folks might. A review of The Language of Law School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer" by Elizabeth Mertz. Did Charles Darwin believe in racial inequality? From The Guardian, Steve Jones explores the obscure chapters of Darwin's life; and more on Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond (and more and more and more; and more from Bookforum). An interview with Adam Gopnik, author of Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (and more and more). A review of books on Lincoln. In a shrinking world, Joshua Kurlantzick reports that the role of tyrants isn’t. From New Matilda, an article on the joy of violent Muslim sex. From Nerve, sex sells, but who's buying? How a billion-dollar industry faces the recession; and dirty movies and you: Here's a brief history of pornography in America. From Seed, 2009 will be a year of panic: From the fevered mind of Bruce Sterling and his alter-ego, Bruno Argento, a consideration of things ahead — while the true 21st century begins.
