From Witness, Chris Abani on Ethics and Narrative: the Human and Other. Like good nightclub promoters, MySpace sought out the ladies, then created an experience that everyone enjoyed — but is the party coming to an end? A review of A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd. Donna Seaman reviews The Girl with Brown Fur: Tales and Stories by Stacey Levine. From New Scientist, an article on John Tyndall, the man who discovered greenhouse gases. For a happier life, shake off your misplaced optimism. Paying with our sins: To help the federal and state governments fill their coffers, legalize and tax every vice. How much potential harm justifies suppressing facts, whether from My Lai or Iraq, that might help the public judge the way a war is waged in its name? An excerpt from Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Robert Lanza. A review of Thomas Maier's Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America (and more and more and more). Misreading the end of literary culture: We should not rue the passing of a bookish golden age that never existed.