From Applied Semiotics, Goran Kjellmer (Gothenburg): Literary Conventions and the Human Body: The use of bodily expressions for states of mind; and Ibrahim Taha (Haifa): Semiotics of Literary Titling: Three Categories of Reference. Reganomics, or how to publish like a porn star: Firebrand editor Judith Regan's influence can be felt on two new HarperCollins imprints. A review of Plato's Ghost: the Modernist Transformation of Mathematics by Jeremy Gray. John Lloyd on why Britain is best when it comes to gossip. AC Grayling reviews Questions of Truth: God, Science and Belief by John Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale. A review of Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average by Joseph T. Hallinan. A review of Inside the Stalin Archives by Jonathan Brent. Twilight of the autocrats: Will the financial crisis bring down Russia and China? Genetic surveillance for all: What if the FBI put the family of everyone who has ever been convicted or arrested into a giant DNA database? John Quiggin on refuted economic doctrines: Central bank independence. Regulating the new financial sector: Financial regulation is a now-or-never proposition as the sector’s lobbying power is greatly diminished. They have it all — so why is it so hard for some women to be happy? From Der Spiegel, an article on the case of John Demjanjuk: Nazi guard, sick old man or both?
