From Powell's, an interview with Michael Gazzaniga, author of Human (and a review) and an interview with Tom Boellstorff, author of Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. More and more and more on The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank. From Taki's Magazine, John Derbyshire on the Singularity as the Rapture for nerds. What if you could tell whether a man is husband material just by peering at his genes? (and more and more on why men cheat) From TNR, an interview with Charles Barkley on politics. An interview with Graham Vickers, author of Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again. From Monthly Review, a special issue on Ecology: The Moment of Truth. From Left Turn, a special issue on global ecology and the Left. An article

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