From Green Anarchy, an essay by John Zerzan on silence. A review of The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace (and an excerpt). A review of Reflections of a Wine Merchant by Neal I. Rosenthal. Music's literary side: Songwriter Joe Henry reflects on a lifetime's worth of reading—and its influence on his music. Words, words, words: Michael Kinsley on a brilliant new way for measuring the productivity of journalists. From TLS, a review of State of The Nation: British Theatre Since 1945 by Michael Billington; a review of books on Stonehenge; and a review of books on the lives of naturalists; and a review of Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon and The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu (and an excerpt at Bookforum). As geeks become chic in all levels of society, an unlikely subset is starting to roar — meet the nerd girls: they're smart, they're techie and they're hot. With celebrity-crazy blogs like Dlisted and Oh No They Didn't growing in prominence and touting an anarchic and egalitarian spirit, has gossip become the ruling media from of our era? Triumph of the Pill: Why brain doping on campus is no cause for concern. From Cracked, a look at the 9 most devastating insults from around the world.
