Markus Wrbouschek (Vienna): Discourse Analysis and Social Critique (and a response). From Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, a special issue on The Space Between: Languages, translations and cultures. Information processing and pleasure: A review of The Age of the Infovore by Tyler Cowen (and Cowen recommends books on information). Peter and Christopher Hitchens have never been close, but perhaps nothing separates the brothers more than their views on faith. That Obama saved Detroit is nothing short of a miracle (and more). In his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume was published a century after his death, a very different Mark Twain emerges, more pointedly political and willing to play the role of the angry prophet. Ruth Graham reveals what's inside the indefinitely postponed Speaking Up: The Sarah Palin Story. Why do men cheat? Olga Craig meets the man who has spent five years finding out. Four Deformations of the Apocalypse: David Stockman on how the Republican Party destroyed the American economy. Marisa Meltzer reviews Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis. After Breitbart and Shirley Sherrod, we need a slow-news movement. What would Roosevelt do? Much of the stimulus spending has given a priority to gross domestic product, but government spending alone does little good if it isn’t creating jobs. Eric Holder doesn’t hate white people — sorry, Fox News.
