From The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris on the woman behind the camera at Abu Ghraib. Biologist EO Wilson says soccer moms are natural history’s enemy. Critics criticised: Strong criticism is not necessarily intolerance. A new issue of Ephemera is out, including a review of Arjun Appadurai's Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger; a review of Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation by Peter Hallward; and a review of books on Althusser. An interview with Steven Waldman, author of Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America (and a review). Peak oil?: It won't be easy but we can fix our oil and climate problems at the same time. RIP stand-alone biz section: They were thin, sure, but they were something. An interview with Elizabeth Hess, author of Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human. From the first issue of Triple Canopy, an interview with Samantha Power, author of Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (and more and more and more). The loose-tongued ambassador: An interview with Guyanese academic and novelist David Dabydeen, spurred on to great achievement by Enoch Powell. It turns out Wall Street is really predicated on greed. Dirty, sexy money: The writer Rupert Smith on his lucrative porn-lit sideline.
