The utopian as sadist

The Summer 2008 issue of Contemporary Review is now online. An interview with Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. A review of The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence and the World of Homer by Jonathan Gottschall. From Humanitas, Robert H. Bell (Williams): Homer’s Humor: Laughter in The Iliad; Gabriel R. Ricci (Elizabethtown): Goethe’s Faust: Poetry and Philosophy at the Crossroads; Gorman Beauchamp (Michigan): "The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor": The Utopian as Sadist; and James Seaton (MSU): Lyric Poetry, the Novel, and Revolution: Milan Kundera’s Life is Elsewhere. From Anthurium, a special issue on V.S. Naipaul. From The New Yorker, a review of Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World by Fred E. Basten. A review of The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture Since 1960 by David E. Kyvig. The Orator: Meet Robert Brown Elliot, the Obama of the 1870s. An article on New England's wealth of literary magazines. Handcrafted data: Why many great reference works still rely on paintbrush and pencil, not the digital camera. From PC Magazine, a look at the top 100 undiscovered Web sites. Tiny talents: Instruction, especially in trivial skills, is one of the Web’s great giveaways. From Scientific American, a special section on technology, privacy and security.