From Portal, a special issue on Fields of Remembrance. New Media, Old Media: How blogs and social media agendas relate and differ from traditional press. Richard Beck reviews Silk Parachute by John McPhee. Ghostwriting and the political book culture: From U.S. Grant to Eleanor Roosevelt to Laura Bush and many others, their own words are often put on the page by others. The omission of Birgit Jurgenssen in American critical and curatorial circles is perplexing, for hers is among the most trenchant work in the feminist-art canon. A review of The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature by Paul Collier (and more and more and more). Checking up on the doctor: What patients can learn from the ways physicians take care of themselves. Why do bad and incompetent governments emerge and persist under a variety of different political regimes? Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin investgate. Offering refuge, glamour, the frisson of exotic lands, and (yes) a nice buzz, a good hotel bar is worth its weight in crushed ice. A review of Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA by Daniel Carpenter. Even in his grave, Norman Mailer is providing gossip, with memoirs this year by his widow, his cook, and one of his mistresses; yet despite the sea of women in Mailer’s life his great literary handicap was the failure to learn from them. A review of The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War between States and Corporations? by Ian Bremmer (and more and more and more and more and more and more). Scott Storch raked in hip-hop millions and then snorted his way to ruin. The first chapter from European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean: Toward a New Philology and a Counter-Orientalism by Karla Mallette.
