MyAppleMenu ReaderGreat Reads in LifeNotes From A Barbarian- August 19, 2008 by Morgan Meis, The Smart SetThe idea of a "canon" is in tatters. A canon needs an established cultural authority, and there is no guiding authority in culture anymore.http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article08140802.aspx The Great Lobster Mystery- August 19, 2008 by Daniel Gross, SlateFood prices are soaring, so why are prices for the delicious crustacean fallinghttp://www.slate.com/id/2196990/?from=rss Did Doctors Remove Babies' Hearts Too Soon- August 19, 2008 by Rahul K. Parikh, SalonColorado doctors are under fire for performing infant organ transplants prematurely. But they made the right call.http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2008/08/19/baby_heart_transplants/index.html Cinema Stole My Favorite Books- August 19, 2008 by David Barnett, The GuardianI expended time and imagination to absorb these stories. Why should people be entitled to think they know them without puttting in any efforthttp://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/08/cinema_stole_my_favourite_book.html The Other Darwin- August 19, 2008 by Mark Czarnecki, The WalrusEvolutionary psychology takes evolution one step further: not only the body of Homo sapiens, but the human mind as well has been shaped by this process. How we think and feel has evolved over millennia, stretching back to our prehistory on the African savannah, and those ancient patterns stay with us, despite the cultural overlay of recorded history nd the wide spectrum of individual difference.http://walrusmagazine.com:80/articles/2008.09-the-other-darwin-mark-czarnecki-creationism-... Author, Author: Name That Plume- August 18, 2008 by Anne Enright, The GuardianNaming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.Naming characters is much less fraught.http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/09/5 Isola Bella- August 18, 2008 by C. K. Stead, New Yorkerhttp://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/08/25/080825po_poem_stead Here The Birds' Journey Ends- August 18, 2008 by Mahmoud Darwish, New Yorkerhttp://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/08/25/080825po_poem_darwish Awake- August 18, 2008 by Tobias Wolff, New Yorkerhttp://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/08/25/080825fi_fiction_wolff |