From The Economist, a special report on the future of finance, including how the golden age of finance collapsed under its own contradictions — why it went wrong and what to do next; mathematical models are a powerful way of predicting financial markets, but they are fallible; and how to play chicken and lose: Finance suffers from reverse natural selection. A review of Mitchell Bryan Hart's The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine. Is there such a thing as Jewish art? Jackie Wullschlager investigates. A look at why science fiction is the genre that dare not speak its name. A review of The Natural History of Unicorns by Christopher Lavers. "Young Europeans would like to be Scandinavian": An interview with Cecile Van de Velde, author of Devenir adulte: Sociologie comparee de la jeunesse en Europe. A review of Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence by Bruce Johnson and Martin Cloonan. A review of Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture by Baz Dreisinger. FP looks at five countries on the verge of following Iceland to economic ruin and political meltdown; and here's a list of the world's most notorious prisons. The Flaws of Facebook: The social network site ignores the care with which academics need to calibrate the mix of private and professional in their lives.
