nplusonemag.com - 10/30/2009
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Caleb Crain. The Wreck of the Henry Clay . Self-published. May 2009. On December 7th, 2006, in a blog entry on "Offprints in the Digital Age," honestly reprinted in its entirety, n+1 friend and frequent contributor Caleb Crain assured his readers, "not even I am so ...
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A weekly roundup of noteworthy reviews from other sources.
Daniel Menaker reviews Tim Page’s memoir about growing up with Asperger’s: “The writing here is for the most part clear, conversational, mordantly funny. In fact, you wonder how the author can have such a wide palette of expressiveness, given the nature of his nature.” . . . A smart piece by Andrew Delbanco on two new books about education, and why “despite the manifest ambiguities of the data, Americans persist in believing that our schools have fallen from some golden age of excellence.” . . . Gordon Haber reviews six recent ...
The dead speak
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Caleb Crain revisits the to me utterly fascinating question of how John Keats actually talked. (This post is a nice small example of how Caleb uses his blog to organize and annotate his more official publications.) Also recommended: Lynda Mugglestone's Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol. And there is a magical essay by Peter Holland, "Hearing the Dead: The Sound of David Garrick," in Players, Playwrights, Playhouses. Bonus link: Marco Roth has a really lovely piece at n+1 about Caleb's self-published collection of blog posts The ...
OMNIVORE: Something’s gotta give
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Something’s gotta give From Judgment and Decision Making , Eric Luis Uhlmann (Northwestern), David Pizarro (Cornell), and David Tannenbaum and Peter Ditto (UC-Irvine): The motivated use of moral principles . Don’t make me scrape off that fake tan: Our era's greatest scourge — the carrot-colored hot mess. From LRC , Charles Wright on too much health care : We can’t afford life’s creeping medicalization. A review of What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell (and more and more and more and more ). Christina Binkley on the relentless rise of power ...
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“How I Unmasked @FakeAPStylebook (an Only-on-Twitter Story)”
“What it Means When a City Loses its Paper” (via MediaBistro)
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