June 5, 2012: Morning
- Western journalists, including Pulitzer-winning Peter Arnett, on what it's like to move to China to teach journalism.
- Notes on the under-researched phenomenon that is drunk speech.
- Roundtable with the creators of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and Deadwood (aka The Milch Man) on the art of current TV.
- Previews of TV shows to see this summer.
- Everyone hates the "contorted mass of entrails" that is the London Olympic symbol.
- Brief tick-tock with climbers Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold as they free-climbed Yosemite's three biggest grade VI walls in a day.
- At the French Open as in today's greater tennis world, the men stick to form, the women go free-for-all.
- Novelist Nic Brown covers new American tennis hopefuls in "The Tennis Handsomes."
- 1983 Voice essay remains among the saddest and best things written about jazz writing.
- Help TMN by completing a short reader survey and possibly win some prizes.
- Rainn Wilson assesses in-flight magazines.
- Mitt Romney writes erotic fiction about himself.