September 21, 2011: Afternoon
- The Recession may not have resulted in a crime wave, but evidence shows it may have caused a spike in child abuse.
- Outrageous teacher cheating scandals.
- Experimental philosophy leaves the armchair and heads to the streets.
- From a Cervantes-inspired Shakespeare play to incomplete Plath novel, history is littered with lost books.
- Scientists: We are getting fatter because we've stopped smoking.
- Q&A with Michael Caine on quitting smoking, advising young actors, being threatened by retrospectives.
- Salman Rushdie joins Twitter, immediately plays Scrabble with Kylie Minogue, makes plans to meet with Neil Gaiman.
- Topix is turning into a user-led mean girl Facebook wall for small-town America.
- Words go head to head in the War of the Words Tournament: "Kind of like the Tournament of Books but on a more... visceral level."
- Related: The Meanjin Tournament of Books pits canonical novels written by Australian women against each other.
- TMN's John Warner will do a live Biblioracle performance next Friday in Charlottesville, Va.
- Tom Wilson, the creator of Ziggy, died last week at 80.
- Archie without context.