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by Edward Rothstein, New York Times
Philip Bobbitt's powerful, dense and brilliant new book argues that the nature of terrorism has changed as nationhood has evolved.
by Paul Constant, The Stranger
I'm a straight guy with no interest in sports and almost no body hair. What makes a man masculine? The question led me to a doctor's office, a therapist's couch, and a drag bar in Tacoma.
by Joe Donnelly, LA Weekly
Laura Branigan, Old Milwaukee and a tough angle on the eight ball: A short story.
by Steve Almond, Best Life Magazine
How to be sure your daughter doesn't turn out like Lindsay Lohan.
by Louis Bayard, Salon
Tony Horwitz's fascinating new book takes us on a journey across the continent to prove that our nation's founding legends are built on lies.
by Jeremy Laurance, The Independent
There are many things to like about this book, beginning with the title.
by Siri Carpenter, Scientific American
Deep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst part is: we act on them.
by Bill Kauffman, Wall Street Journal
"I went to Niagara Falls because I wanted to laugh at it," confesses Ginger Strand in "Inventing Niagara." She doesn't mean the waterfalls, which awe even the most jaded MP3-zombie, but the tawdry environs and tumbledown American city that border them. Whereas the city of Niagara Falls once evolved the hymeneal and sexual - honeymooners and Marilyn Monroe - today the cataracts are a mere cloud in the eye of the slot players at the nearby casinos.
by Roger Ebert, Chicaco Sun-Times
I woke up at about 3:30 a.m. and went online to see if Obama had pulled a victory out of Indiana. He had narrowed Clinton's head to two points by midnight and later added a few more votes, but the story was basically the same: Clinton's winning margin was so small that it didn't much count, and Obama would be hte likely presidential nominee. Then I started wondering, in the vaporous midnight hours, about how you could make a ovie of this primary campaign.
by Nick Bostrom, MIT Technology Review
Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.
by Jennifer Gonnerman, New York Magazine
Every time a trackworker goes into the tunnels, there's a chance he won't come back out. What the world looks like when a 400-ton train is barreling toward you at 30 miles per hour.
by Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair
Politics is now about sex. Not just scandalous sex, not jsut who is having what kind of sex, but what we think about the sex each politician is having, or not having. Sex (sex, not gender) in politics is as significant a subtext as race.
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