A new issue of Lost is out. From n+1, a review of Cristina Nehring's A Vindication of Love: Reinventing Romance for the 21st Century and Julie Metz's Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal (and a response). Cornel West was in The Matrix, but cultural politics isn't a video game; Scott McLemee responds to the continuing discussion. The key to decoding the Bible is understanding its poetry: A review of A Literary Bible by David Rosenberg. A review of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici. From CJR, Michael Massing on David Ignatius’s Helicopter Journalism: What a delight it must be to be a columnist for a major American newspaper. Christopher Hayes reviews Interesting Times: Writing from a Turbulent Decade by George Packer (and more). Days of the undead: Our fascination with horror films reflects the anxiety of the middle classes — caught between proletariat zombies and vampire toffs. Ron Rosenbaum on the dangerous mysteries of consciousness: We still need answers. Tinker, tailor, soldier, illusionist: When the CIA tried its hand at magic (and more). Still sexually confused (but not gay) ex-megapastor Ted Haggard is preaching again and his old friends, James Dobson among them, are not happy about it — forgiveness only goes so far, apparently. Death to smiley: Mary Elizabeth Williams on why emoticons need to die. The world may be getting smaller, but it's also getting a whole lot faster: A review of Time by Eva Hoffman. A review of Deconstructing Developmental Psychology by Erica Burman. Why do we make artificial snow? Uh, because we can.
