A new issue of World Picture is out. Heather Monasky (William Mitchell): On Comprehensive Prostitution Reform: Criminalizing the Trafficker and the Trick, But Not the Victim — Sweden’s Sexkopslagen in America. Mikhail Simkin on a scientific evaluation of Charles Dickens. A major literary prize has been won by a book of verse, and the genre has rarely been more popular — so why does it feel as if poetry is losing its way? Nonprofit social venture capital firm Acumen Fund’s model has garnered attention, but can it change international aid? From THES, a review of Plain Ugly: The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Culture by Naomi Baker; and a review of The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide by Daniel Blatman. From The Economist, a special report on global leaders: In the information age, brainy people are rewarded with wealth and influence — what does this mean for everyone else? A review of Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference Jane Burbank by Frederick Cooper. What does the book of Daniel have to say about empire today? An interview with Kathryn Lofton, author of Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon. These days it seems every controversial remark has been taken "out of context"; time to return the phrase to the literary critics. Teenage queen Marie Antoinette, now the subject of a new movie, was embraced by France in 1770 — twenty-three years later, she lost her head to the guillotine (but she never said, "Let them eat cake").
