From The New Yorker, a review of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin. A review of The Adventurer’s Handbook: Life Lessons from History’s Great Explorers by Mick Conefrey. A review of Stealing the Wave: The Epic Struggle between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo by Andy Martin. A review of Crow Country: A Meditation on Birds, Landscape and Nature by Mark Cocker. An interview with Ann Patchett, author of Truth & Beauty: A Friendship. A review of Art & Morality.
He transformed 20th-century sculpture and influenced Picasso, who worked with him for several years. Julio Gonzalez, whose work is being exhibited at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, was an inspirational Cubist. A review of New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism from the Bicentennial to the Millennium by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman and Jacob Tilove and New London Architecture. The re-enactment of a speech originally given by Paul Potter, the former president of Students for a Democratic Society, during the 1965 march on Washington fits into a growing subgenre of historical re-enactment as performance art.
A review of Hollywood on Trial: McCarthyism's War Against the Movies by Michael Freedland with Barbara Paskin. Are all movies inherently Jewish? A review of Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business by David Mamet. Indie world isn't for faint of heart: A horror film's on-again, off-again journey to a release date is on again, but its young makers are wiser to the process. The social acceptability of fake goods: There is something false in the outrage about deception by television. Mostly we turn a blind eye to dodgy production ethics because after all, it's just entertainment.
From OJR, an article on how newspapers can thrive on the World Wide Web. Tim Dowling meets the man cyberspace loves to hate; and another interview with the author of The Cult of the Amateur (and more). Even in this wonderful world of new technology, we still have to remember the old ways of doing things, writes Clive James. An article on the rise of cyberbullying. It's time to stop relying on Google to boost our lapses in memory - - if we don't make the effort we may lose the capacity altogether. Wikipedia and the intelligence services: Is the Net's popular encyclopedia marred by disinformation? Damn Spam: An article on the losing war on junk e-mail.
