Here's the Bookforum interview with French writer and film director Alain Robbe-Grillet. From LRB, a review of The Wilsonian Moment: Self Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manela. From TLS, a review of books on the indiscretions of the history men. From Wired, a look at how ecotopias aren't just for hippies anymore — and they're sprouting up worldwide. From The American Conservative, a special issue on John McCain and the Great Betrayal. This election is certainly important, but it isn’t likely to result in a major swing in economic policy.From TNR, a review of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder by Allan V. Horwitz. A review of Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe in the 16th c. CE by C. K. Raju. A review of Worth and Welfare in the Controversy over Abortion by Christopher Miles Coope. It’s a BA-by!: A conversation between a secular ethicist and an abortion protester. From Taki's Top Drawer, an article on the Right’s science problem. A Prague brothel offering free sex and the chance of internet stardom is providing men with a novel style of sexual recreation. An excerpt from Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery by Judith Harris.
