Week of October 31, 2011 Archives

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Monday, October 31
The Multiple Personality Racket
Jessa Crispin The Smart Set
I Wanted to Heckle Lionel Trilling
Jacques Barzun Wall Street Journal
The Lady Gaga School of Gender Delusion
Derbyshire & Powell Spiked
The Way I Write Books Must Change
Jeff Jarvis The Huffington Post
Don DeLillo, Connoisseur of Chaos
John Banville Financial Times
Not Just Your Parents' NPR
Shannon Maughan Publishers Weekly
The American Book Awards Were a Disaster
Craig Fehrman NYT
Struggles of the English Gentry
David Crane London Spectator
Bill Niskanen, Trinitarian
Jeremy Lott American Spectator
R.L. Stine's Really Scary Stories
Emily Withrow AV Club


Tuesday, November 1
J.K. Rowling Nearly Offed Ron Weasley
Alison Flood The Guardian
End of Gregory Maguire's Yellow Brick Road
Elizabeth Hand WaPo
'Complete Peanuts' Still Not Stale
Rich Clabaugh Christian Science
Conrad Black, a Lawyer's Nightmare
Peter Worthington Huff Post
Stand Up for the 90-Minute Bigots
Kevin Rooney Spiked Review
Boy Scouts' Handbook as Self-Help Manual
Kathleen Arnn CRB
The Katrina Last Time
Edward Tenner The Wilson Quarterly
War of the Economists
Michael Maiello The Daily Beast
Why Are Humans So Right-Handed?
Rik Smits Salon
A Hazy Shade of October
Russ Smith Splice Today


Wednesday, November 2
To Read and Read and Be a Moron
Theodore Dalrymple New English
Is the Apostrophe About to Die?
Henry Hitchings The Huffington Post
Brad Paisley's Musical Heroes
Molly Driscoll Christian Science Monitor
The Return of Reverend Malthus
Tim Black Spiked Review of Books
What's Magic About Mushrooms?
Richard Mabey Wall Street Journal
Why 'Kafkaesque' Isn't Kafkaesque
Noah Berlatsky Splice Today
Wiley Sues to Block Downloading for Dummies
Jim Milliot PW
Is This the Best NBA Book Ever Written?
David Haglund Slate
The Fast Track Up Parnassus
Robert McCrum The Guardian
James Garner's Scars
Harry Chotiner The New Republic


Thursday, November 3
It's Bomb Anybody Who Draws Mohammed Day!
Nick Gillespie Reason
One History of Carthage, Hold the Salt
Christopher Carroll New Republic
Stephen King vs. Lee Harvey Oswald
Alexandra Alter Wall Street Journal
Michel Houellebecq's Ludicrous Plot
Andrew Hussey Litarary Review
The Boy Who Grew Up and Produced Batman
Gray Hunter Blogcritics
Another Rambling Novel About Whales
Paul Constant The Stranger
Deal Buys Murdoch Half of US Christian Publishing
Ted Olsen CT
Smart Enough to Know You're Stupid?
Greg Voakes Splice Today
Jon Stewart, Mean Life Coach
Marcus Gilmer AV Club
Occupy Oz!
Gregory Maguire Huffington Post


Friday, November 4
Kurt Vonnegut Had Scores to Settle
Janet Maslin New York Times
One Martin Amis Bio, Minus the Space Invaders
Sam Leith Spectator
Cheney Didn't Change, the Press Did
Andrew Ferguson Commentary
Earnest Libs Picking Thousand-Word Nits
John Derbyshire AmCon
Ahem, Hayek Was Not a Conservative
Ryan Young Open Market
Still Not Getting It on Kindle Lending
Mathew Ingram GigaOM
The Cruelest Nazi Leader
Istvan Deak The New Republic
Mannequin Marks the Spot
Kevin McFarland AV Club
Devil in the Details
Richard Korman Miller-McCune
A Stormin' Norman
Helen Castor Literary Review
Saturday, November 5
For the South, the Civil War Never Ended
Barton Swaim New Criterion
Gabrielle Giffords's Agonizing Road to Recovery
Amanda Lee Myers AP
The Sea Won't Ever Let You Forget
Stefany Anne Golberg The Smart Set
How Texas Tea Transformed Alaska
Ben Stein The Washington Times
Is Sherlock Holmes Immortal?
Molly Driscoll Christian Science Monitor
Prohibition's Evidence-Based Comeback
Patrick Hayes Spiked Review
Mark Steyn Was Sent to Depress Us
Alexander Chancellor Spectator
When the Recession Hit Literature
Chloë Schama The Daily Beast
Friedrich Nietzsche, American Idol
Ross Posnock The Nation
Take That, Malcolm Gladwell!
Ellen Wernecke AV Club
Monday, November 7
One Thing You Should Never Ask Chris Matthews
Jeff Bercovici Forbes
Steve McQueen Was No Clint Eastwood
David Thompson New Republic
Universities No Longer Value Learning
Alex Standish Spiked Review
Edgar Allan Poe, Meet Casey Anthony
Greg Bodine Huffington Post
Shakespeare v. Oxford Supreme Court Ruling
David Haglund Slate
Bill Clinton Goes 'Back to Work' for Obama
Brendan Sasso The Hill
Not Your Father's DVD-Based Study
Jason Hood Books & Culture
Umberto Eco's Hissably Malevolent Bad Guy
Sam Sacks WSJ
An Irrational Masterpiece
William Easterly Financial Times
Irving Kristol's Conversion Stories
Ross Douthat CRB


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