From Green Anarchy, an essay by John Zerzan on silence. A review of The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace (and an excerpt). A review of Reflections of a Wine Merchant by Neal I. Rosenthal. Music's literary side: Songwriter  Joe Henry reflects on a lifetime's worth of reading—and its influence on his music. Words, words, words: Michael Kinsley on a brilliant new way for measuring the productivity of journalists. From TLS, a review of State of The Nation: British Theatre Since 1945 by Michael Billington; a review of books on Stonehenge; and a review of books on the lives of naturalists; and a review of Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon and The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and

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