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The way we read and write

From Dissent, Nicolaus Mills on the Nuremberg Precedent and the Obama Administration; Greg Smithsimon on why we need a permanent solution for our banks; and Marshall Berman on Orhan Pamuk and modernist liberalism. From LRB, James Wood writes about the manipulations of Ian McEwan. Steven Johnson on how the e-book will change the way we read and write. A review of Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country? A review of The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law by Steven Teles (and more on the conservative movement at Bookforum). A review of United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror by Jamie Glazov (and more). An extraordinary academic icon: A review of Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell. A review of The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen (and an interview). An interview with Alain de Botton, author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (and more and more and more). A look at how a TV network in Brazil has changed the idea of family.  A review of Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo (and more and more and more).