Still ugly after all these years: The endurance of "The Ugly American" may say less about its literary merits than about its failure to alter attitudes. "People are morons": An interview with Michael Wolff on why reputations can be deceiving. A review of Wednesday Martin's Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel and Act the Way We Do. A review of The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire by Linda Himelstein. What makes so academic laboratories such dangerous places to work? Reading books that don't exist: A group of artists has manufactured 40 books previously only available in imaginary form. A review of John F. Haught's God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens. A review of Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fuelled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu by Philip Alcabes. A look at why we cling to outdated medical myths. Stored near a beer cooler and sent through the mail, Albert Einstein's unusual brain comes under renewed study. A review of The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and Its Limits by Thomas Christiano.