Vanity Fair finds Harvard suddenly at risk of not being able to keep the lights on. These poems have right answers — does that diminish them? Robert Pinsky investigates. Saving Monsignor Ryan: An article on refuting the myths of neoconservative Roman Catholic economics. Public displays of disaffection: Why women care so much about the reaction of the betrayed political wife. Does "belief in belief" amount to deliberately keeping in darkness people who might and should know better? Mr Parallel Universe: Michio Kaku is playing the hottest game in town with his new variation of string theory. A review of John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell's The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable (and more by Matthew Yglesias at Bookforum). The library that never closes: The Open Library hopes to unite the net and the printed word by creating a web page for every book. No topic is more hotly debated in book circles at the moment than the timing, pricing and ultimate impact of e-books on the financial health of publishers and retailers. The book industry is gonna get Napstered if it forces Amazon to raise e-book prices. Is Dollywood one big kitsch joke? Rob Blackhurst investigates.
