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The shadowy figure behind

From Obit, Matt Katz on the death of idle time: Technology fills our hours — reflection be damned! Six giant banks made $51 billion last year, the other 980 lost money: An oligopoly of Goldman, BofA, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Citi and Wells Fargo is flourishing. Here are 6 ridiculous history myths (you probably think are true). Not Dead Yet: P. J. O'Rourke introduces the pre-obituary, a few choice words before you go. A review of books on shopping. Scott Roeder is now serving a life term for murdering abortion doctor George Tiller — but did he really act alone? Plight of the Living Dead: The strange longevity of George A. Romero’s zombies. The writings of debunker of pseudoscience Martin Gardner show us how little has changed in the last 60 years. Obama’s Muslim Strategy 2.0: Creating Islamic networks, incubating ideas, beginning anew (again) — so what’s the problem? Bilge Ebiri reviews The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession by David Grann. A review of The Medieval Prison: A Social History by G. Geltner. From the Englewood Review of Books, a review of books on medieval history. Just how fashionably detached do you need to be? It’s a rule that the more aloof one is toward popular culture, the more noble and/or interesting one’s life pursuits must be. Make them pay: How to calculate what BP owes America. Enough snobbery over his TV career — as Simon Schama's books show, he created the path lesser historians stumblingly follow. WikiLeaks has revealed the secrets of the Pentagon, Scientology, and Sarah Palin and the explosive video of a US attack on civilians and journalists in Iraq — meet the shadowy figure behind the whistleblower site. From NYRB, a review essay on the Bauhaus. Overwhelmed? Welcome the Age of Curation.