From Utne, a special issue on 50 visionaries who are changing your world. Mad about "Mad Men": A review of Kings of Madison Avenue by Jesse McLean. From VQR, a review of Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian and Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir by Peter Balakian. As Obama grapples with Afghanistan, the final interviews with Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy offer the lessons of Vietnam. A review of Roy Sorensen's Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows. From TPM, Daniel Frampton takes a filmosophical view of David Lynch; and while exploring sounds, audition, and sense modalities other than vision contributes to understanding the nature of perception and of its objects, it also reveals difficulties. The "graphic novel" is a great marketing gimmick — so grown-ups can buy comics about men in flashy briefs, unabashedly. Morgan Meis on ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'', a bridge between the old myths and the ones yet-to-be-written — oh, and good for Halloween. Imagine how much better you’d feel waking up to next month with your favourite calendar girl: Miss November, Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. From Commentary, a review of Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe: And Other Stories of Literary Friendship by Edward Alexander and The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism by Michael Kimmage. Quirky convergence of two unrelated events is made possible by a new Web site, the Book of Odds. ¡Hola, Hezbollah! How Lebanese mullah Sheikh Hassan al-Burji found happiness in Paraguay.
