From Transcript, a special issue on Gaza. Stephen R. Alton (Texas Wesleyan): The Game is Afoot! The Significance of Gratuitous Transfers in the Sherlock Holmes Canon. What will future generations condemn us for? Kwame Anthony Appiah wonders (and an interview at Bookforum). Music on the brain: The emotions teeming inside the works of the Romantic composers may have neurological explanations, as a recent meeting explored. From The Public Eye, Kathryn Joyce on abortion as "black genocide": An old scare tactic re-emerges; and a review of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Hass. Masturbation benefits women more than men, and yet they masturbate less; contemporary science has dispelled the outlandish historical myths about masturbation, and yet it has not managed to close this gap — why? A review of Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View by Stephen Breyer (and more and more and more and more). An interview with True Prep author Lisa Birnbach about her bestselling followup to The Official Preppy Handbook. A review of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper. From Asia Sentinel, beauty is as beauty does, or as it talks especially in beauty contests. Neil Irwin on why it doesn't feel like a recovery. An article on The Breakfast Club at 25: Where are Claire, Andy, Brian, John and Allison?
