Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83 (Published 2012)
Maurice Sendak at his Ridgefield, Conn., home with his German Shepherd, Herman, in 2006.Credit...Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche,
On Their Stomachs (Published 2012)
Chinese fighters share a basket of rice, 1943.Credit...Associated Press Calories were made to be counted, but they have generally been counted for two very different reasons. We associate calories with excess, but for most of its history this little unit of energy was linked to shortage. The years since World War II have been a time of cheap and plentiful food, and of obese and sick citizens. Sinc
Oil’s Dark Heart Pumps Strong (Published 2012)
The cover of “Private Empire,” Steve Coll’s new book about the Exxon Mobil Corporation, is a forbidding black slab. Even the lettering looks dismal. It’s the color of a chain smoker’s lung. Mr. Coll’s vast narrative is bookended by accounts of man-made disasters. “Private Empire” opens with the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989 (the captain had been drinking), and closes with the BP Deepwat
How Gil Scott-Heron and Stevie Wonder set up Martin Luther King Day
Memphis, Tennessee was only 90 miles west of Jackson, my childhood home. But Memphis was as far away as the north pole in my mind. The history that we were given about it was done in light pencil that hopscotched its way to a semi-solid landing with Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show. Sun Records considered itself the fuse that lit the 1950s with Elvis and rock'n'roll. With Carla and Rufus Thom
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Drifting House by Krys Lee - review
Soldier Is Defeated by War Abroad, Then Welcomed Back by Racism (Published 2012)
The Big Bang (Published 2012)
White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in Hunger Games
Michael Wood · Proust and His Mother
Editor Not Ready to Write an Ending (Published 2012)
Beckett: Storming for Beauty | John Banville
Great American Losers | Elaine Blair
Hilary Mantel · Giving up the Ghost
Opinion | House of Stone (Published 2012)
Zona by Geoff Dyer - review
Video Blog, Episode 4
The Last Holiday: A Memoir by Gil Scott-Heron – review
John Lanchester: a keen eye for the state of the nation | Observer profile
Christopher Hitchens: Introduction to 'Animal Farm' | The Orwell Foundation