From N1BR, Christian Lorentzen reviews Walter Kirn's Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever (and more and more and more); Nikil Saval reviews Mark Rudd's Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen (and more from Bookforum); Jessica Weisberg reviews the career of Ed Vega; Edward Morgan Day Frank reviews Clancy Martin's How to Sell (and more from Bookforum); Isaac Scarborough reviews Dilip Hiro's Inside Central Asia; Michael Lindgren reviews two books on John Cheever (and more from Bookforum); and Benjamin Kunkel reviews three books on the internet. What’s a feminist like you doing in a place like this? From Spiked, an article on John Gray, the poster boy for misanthropy. The Department of Homeland Security profiled several left-wing groups in a memo claiming they were potential threats — not all of them are. An interview with Rick Steves, author of Travel as a Political Act. An excerpt from Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed by Kathy Marks. Are there women paedophiles? Finding kitsch's inner beauty: Garden gnomes and Elvis busts be damned! The GOP's feigned outrage: It takes chutzpah to protest what you've created. More and more and more and more and more and more on Voodoo Histories by David Aaronovitch.