Rekindled
What Amazon’s e-reader portends, according to Nicholson Baker and Jacob Weisberg.
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31 July 2009: Weekend
Cuomo's office finds nine bailed-out banks paid around 5,000 employees bonuses of more than $1 million each for 2008. A profile of lawyer John Durham, who's rumored to be tapped with the job of investigating torture during the Bush years. Video: The Daily Show
Lacoste of Living
After three-quarters of a century, a quintessential shirt picks up a lot of baggage—some good, some ironically so, all obsession-worthy.
30 July 2009: Afternoon
Military spending bill has $6.9 billion in new vehicles the defense secretary says are unneeded. Assessment of Cantor and Ryan as potential saviors for the Republican party. Anti-Depression policy responses tried to turn back the clock on the changes brought by technology. They failed. Op: The threat of
30 July 2009: Morning
Dust storms threaten Iraq's ecosystem; nearly 80% of food must be imported, diverting money from reconstruction. In China, more than 1,200 textile workers fall ill with vomiting, temporary paralysis; health officials blame mass hysteria. The cannibalistic relationship between media and advertising might leave us with neither industry
29 July 2009: Afternoon
Less absurd than any "racist" video of Glenn Beck's: paintings of the president naked with unicorns. Cottage industry grows to help physicists observe quantum behavior at a real-world scale. Pynchon's new stoned-detective potboiler may stick to certain conventions, but he still goes
29 July 2009: Morning
In a bold post-sovereignty move, Iraqi troops raid an Iranian opposition group long sheltered by the U.S. The recession's effect on children: more teen pregnancy, higher infant mortality, lower birth weight. "We are an overflow community, and there's not much overflow from Manhattan
This Loop of Light and Life
The supernatural is all sheets and spooks—Hamlet, Casper, and Field of Dreams—until it’s sitting in your bedroom.
Attention Must Be Paid
A new Arthur Miller biography goes beyond the Marilyn stuff. But thankfully includes the Marilyn stuff.
28 July 2009: Afternoon
Clinton is so far a dogged, superb secretary of state; too bad the media only portrays her as an almost-was. Instapaper for the commute: Clancy Martin's account of getting sober. Account of how the ocean's surface is bizarre--a sheet of jelly that's