From The New York Times Magazine, here's the 2009 Green Issue. From Boston Review, when it comes to health care, economists ignore their own rules. From Bomb, an interview with Will Steacy, the lovechild of Charles Bukowski and Dorothea Lange. It may be hard to understand the uproar that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work caused when it first appeared in the mid-1980s (and an interview with Judith Butler on Sedgwick). Classical investigations: An interview with Timothy Williamson, Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford. Great and terrible truths: David Foster Wallace’s address at Kenyon College was funny, warm — and unmistakably dark. Changing the American Mind: President Obama has led people to re-think their assumptions — just like F.D.R. A review of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal by Julie Greene (and more from Bookforum). From The New Yorker, Margaret Talbot on the underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs; and Jill Lepore on Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror. Public provides giggles, bloggers get the book deal: Publishers are hoping that millions of page views on a blog will translate into booming sales on the bookstand. Democracy's cheat sheet: Jack Shafer on why it's time to kill the idea that newspapers are essential for democracy.
