From Identity Theory, Emily Meg Weinstein would have to try even harder to get back the silence, not for her own peace of mind but out of respect for the dead. From The Hindu, a review of This Gift of English: English Education and the Formation of Alternative Hegemonies in India by Alok K. Mukherjee; and a "multinational soul in a multinational globe": An interview with Pico Iyer. From TNR, a review of The Fires of Vesuvius: Lost And Found by Mary Beard; From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology by Goran Blix; and Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples by Carol C. Mattusch. More and more on Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag (and more at Bookforum). A review of Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark. A review of Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema. What can magicians teach us about the brain? A review of Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring Boundaries by Glen A. Mazis. Jeremy Stangroom on animal rights, humanists and wishful thinking. A review of three books that explore the curious world of animals and the value of the "living laboratory" to science. We're an ordinary species on an ordinary planet — or are we?
