A new issue of Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics is out, including a review of Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness by Edward Shorter and David Healy. From The New York Observer, a look at why gays go gaga over Andrea Mitchell; an article on the new math of the male mind; and why do young male writers love icky, tough guy deadbeats? Jason Zengerle on Joe the Plumber and the future of foreign correspondents. The book that changed my life: Peter Tatchell chooses Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. From TLS, a review of Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874-1908 by William Oddie; enthusiasts versus bureaucrats: Why the teaching of literature should be impassioned as well as informative; and a review of books on the limitless

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