From Brevity's "The Craft of Concise Literary Nonfiction", becoming your own best critic: In truth, most acts of revision are nothing more than attempts to make sure what you have written fits current rules and fashions; and writers who engage in navel-gazing with the same scientific spirit of risk-taking and inquiry may also glean discoveries of merit; from confession to craft: Memoir as its own reward; “Perhapsing”: The use of speculation in creative nonfiction; the editing part, the preparing for publication, is also a privilege — but of a different order; and to blog or not to blog? Using the blogosphere to shape narrative voice. Genocide Myopia: Sonia Cardenas on how reframing mass atrocity could backfire. Gerald Howard reviews Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow. It’s hard to see how we’re supposed to be mortified that the high-fashion world might forsake aristophilic excess. Why do people think that it is more important for the government to reduce the deficit now, rather than to spend money to create jobs? More on The Flight of the Intellectuals by Paul Berman. A General Theory of Individuality: Whether we're looking at marmots or human beings, variation is the norm — why? We know slavery was an abhorrence, and that sexism and racism are wrong; does that make our society more ethical? Not at all — like generations before us, we make excuses for the clear injustices of our age. A review of Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience by Stephen S. Hal. Chloe Schama reviews Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon. Why a positive result on a medical test doesn’t necessarily mean you’re sick: A review of The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow. John Allen Paulos on five or six reasons why parity puzzles are fun.
