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A Modest List
OK, it’s a list. But it’s my list. Which makes it better than their lists.
Closer to Paradise
At least we haven’t killed the poets. Yet. Philip Levine’s new poetry is alert but hopeful.
9 December 2009: Afternoon
Labour seeks votes, ergo British bankers face one-time tax on bonuses. Tactics currently being used by London bankers to avoid paying taxes. Graphic shows winners and losers when the dollar falls. Audio: Multiple stories about rising seas. When the Washington Post can't be bothered to fact-check
9 December 2009: Morning
T.S.A. confirms it accidentally revealed closely guarded airport screening secrets when it posted a document online. "We want to push back against the extremists." A Muslim prayer hall opens in Manhattan, near ground zero. Leading epidemiologists predict the H1N1 pandemic could rank as the mildest in
The 2010 Tournament of Books Long List
Now is not the time to look backward over a decade. Now is the moment to look forward: to the 2010 Tournament of Books.
Mann’s Man
Recent photographs by Sally Mann in a beautifully reproduced volume, “Proud Flesh.”
8 December 2009: Morning
Pearl Harbor researchers identify wreckage of a Japanese mini-sub--could it have been a precursor to the attack? On Dec. 5, 1933, F.D.R. put an end to Prohibition and saved the U.S. government. In Cuba, blogging is an act of civil disobedience. The current age of
Talking From the Grave
Roberto Bolaño may not have the last word, but here at least is his Final Interview.
The Fabulous Papers
Journalism is dying, journalism is thriving, the end of the world is nigh—there’s a lot to be excited about. A report on the newspapers that prevailed by hook or crook in 2009.