J. Edgar Bauer (JNU): The Female Phallus: On Alfred Kinsey’s sexual vitalism, the theo-political reinstatement of the male/female divide, and the postmodern de-finitization of sexualities. Experts from the worlds of music, literature, film and art answer those intriguing questions you've always wanted to ask. A review of Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism by Michael Burleigh (and more and more and more and an interview). A split second, a life’s sentence: It’s those seemingly inconsequential choices that turn innocents into outlaws. Reason science reporter Ron Bailey’s recent conversion on global warming has libertarians all fired up. An interview with Joseph Stiglitz on the true cost of war. A review of American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation Back to Work by Nick Taylor. A review of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman and The Brain-Dead Megaphone by George Saunders. Babble with Beckett: How foreign languages can provide writers with a way out of the familiar. From Prospect, an article on China's new intelligentsia. What have the frenzied wine-worshipping rituals of Greek mythology got to do with the intricacies of the human brain? A review of Luck and the Irish by R. F. Foster. Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? (and more on Brooklyn’s bookish ambition)
