Susan P. Crawford (Cardozo): The Radio and the Internet. Eric Barbry (CAB): Web 2.0: Nothing Changes... but Everything is Different. From n+1, the whole thing is painful all around. And this, finally, is what must be understood: email, which presents itself as a convenience, a breeze, is in fact a stern disciplinary phenomenon.
The elegant assassin: How James Wood, an Englishman in Somerville, is becoming the most feared man in American letters. In Clive James world everything is connected, from the internet to the pre-war cafes of Paris and Vienna. Don't mistake long novels for deep ones: Slim, artful volumes are so much more profound than fashionably "epic" doorstoppers.
Five months after David Halberstam’s death, Joan Didion, Seymour Hersh, Bob Woodward, Anna Quindlen, Alex Kotlowitz, Paul Hendrickson, Samantha Power and Bill Walton are going on Mr. Halberstam’s book tour for him. Her Journey, All True: In the last two years Laura Albert has lost, in no particular order, her livelihood, her boyfriend, a piece of her identity, quite possibly her apartment and a civil fraud trial in Manhattan. O.J.'s Victims' Families Slug It Out: One wants to publish If I Did It; the other doesn't. When Booksellers Lie: "O.J. will never sell" is the new "Your check is in the mail".
