From TLS, an article on the century of Claude Levi-Strauss: How the great anthropologist, now approaching his 100th birthday, has earned a place in the prestigious Pleiade library; is fiction inherently capitalist? A review of Russell Berman's Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture; and who wrote the original Frankenstein? From NYRB, considering their marital difficulties, it is not surprising that Edmund Wilson made fewer entries in his journal during the years the marriage with Mary McCarthy lasted. From Literary Review, a review of Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing by Roland Huntford. From The New Yorker, an article on the grammar of fun: CliffyB and the world of the video game. More on Lawrence Lessig's Remix (and an interview). From Slate, Jack

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