From The New Yorker, robots that care: Jerome Groopman on advances in technological therapy. Animals reconsidered: Eric Banks describes a book series on humans' interactions with and treatment of some earthly co-creatures. Stoics might not have been so stoical if they’d had bloggers to deal with, says Ophelia Benson. The Audacity of "Precious": Is America ready for a movie about an obese Harlem girl raped and impregnated by her abusive father? Readers can enjoy Electric Literature, a new quarterly literary magazine, any way they like: on paper, Kindle, e-book, iPhone and, starting next month, as an audiobook. Counterinsurgency is at least 50 percent civilian — so where have all the Foreign Service officers gone? An interview with Andrew Losowsky on Stack America: "Think of it as a private magazine club that brings a fresh perspective on the world every two months". Daniel Shaw, editor of Film and Philosophy, laments the reduction of Hannibal Lecter. Obama & Google (a love story): The President relies on Google execs for tech and economic advice as his own regulators scrutinize the online-ad behemoth — is the romance starting to sour? A review of The United States of McSweeney’s: Ten Years of Accidental Classics by Nick Hornby and Eli Horowitz. The Long Shadow of Willie Horton: More than two decades ago, a governor showed a prisoner leniency, with horrifying results — our justice system hasn’t been the same since. From IRB, hubby’s not undead? Nobody’s perfect: An essay on vampire literature (and more on vampire mania). An interview with Mark Denny, author of Froth!: The Science of Beer.
