Benjamin Winegard (Missouri) and Robert Deaner (GVSU): The Evolutionary Significance of Red Sox Nation: Sport Fandom as a By-product of Coalitional Psychology. From the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, Papalii Failautusi Avegalio (Hawaii): Reconciling Modern Knowledge with Ancient Wisdom; and Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Heidelberg) and Ilana Goldstein (Campinas State): Ayahuasca — From Dangerous Drug to National Heritage: An Interview with Antonio A. Arantes. Douglas Messerli reviews Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang. New solutions to entrenched economic problems: An interview with Edmund S. Phelps. Tale of Woe: The death of the VQR’s Kevin Morrissey (and more). The most isolated man on the planet: He's alone in the Brazilian Amazon, but for how long? As electronic readers gain popularity, what happens to the personal library? From the forthcoming The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, Benjamin Kunkel says goodbye to the graphosphere; and Marco Roth on the outskirts of progress. David v. Goliath: A tribe in India has won a stunning victory over Vedanta Resources, one of the world’s biggest mining companies. When Simon Parke was asked to produce some biographies of Van Gogh, Tolstoy, Conan Doyle and Meister Eckhart, he didn’t go down the traditional path. The Born Identity: Designer diapers join the repertory of child-as-prop tools.
