online archive
5:00PM
MAR 10 2008
Words to be looked at
A new issue of Words Without Borders is out. The introduction to Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It by David Dranove. A review of Liz Kotz’s Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art. The introduction to Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design by Henry Petroski. The introduction to The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life. More on Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku. Form TAP, Ezra Klein on why health insurance doesn't work. A review of Bonnie Bremser’s Troia: Mexican Memoirs. A review of Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism by Ibn Warraq and Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid by Daniel Martin Varisco. A review of Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman (and more). A review of American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick Taylor. Here's something you probably didn't need confirmed by Paris Hilton: amateur porn is hot. Mack the Quack: Jonathan Cohn on the disaster that is McCain's health policy. From Utne, an article on the politics of poop. The Red and Blue Plate Special: For pols, Harper's finds good eatin' on donors' dimes. From The New Yorker, Janet Malcolm on the wicked joy of the “Gossip Girl” novels.
