Left Hand Links 2011

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A permanent calendar?

When China rules

Fukuyama was wrong

Philosophy of food

A dangerous age?

Country with no books

Acemoglu on inequality

Internet Compulsion Disorder

History of recipe cards

Microeconomics of poetry

Museums as playgrounds

Ferguson v. Mishra, again

Data furnace

Maharishi Arianna

Turkeys in America

Authors and their books

Hockney v. Hirst

Private Eye at 50

Occupation as fairness

Adam Gopnik, observed

Atheism and morality

Ferguson v. Mishra

Bad for K

Shakespeare, gangster

What happened to irony?

“Last place aversion”

A sister’s eulogy

Know your wine!

Illustrating the Joy of Sex

Hacked!

Art Spiegelman: Why mice?

Future of punctuation

Bram Stoker’s notebook

Steven Pinker’s world

Was Van Gogh murdered?

Rock and literature

Confucius and Beethoven

Reviews of history

The Solo cup

Hitchens on mortality

Grand Map

Silly Prize

The Steve Jobs I knew

Dissolve my Nobel Prize

Etiquette of autographs

How Google translates

Economics of modeling

Hemingway’s letters

Secret life of pronouns

Memorializing 9/11

Confessions of a typomaniac

Against Comic Sans

Reunion with boredom

Who discovered E=mc²?

Hurricane lit

Crimes and publishers

Birth of the nerd

Technology and music

Beauty justifies wealth

Cartooning for The New Yorker

Megatrends that weren’t

Write faster

Elusive big idea

Bug nuggets

Literary protectionism

Novelists and critics

Killed plots

Best on booze

Writers and prisons

Afghanistan in Hipstamatic

An Uh, Er, Um Essay

Spying on Northrop Frye

Largest library in history

Iced coffee and tea

Goodbye, Jim Beam

The most misused word

Recycling butts?

Pope’s Tweets

Shakespeare for Twitter

Myths about Jane Austen

Just say ‘non’

Theodore Roszak, R.I.P.

Wittgenstein’s camera

Pollock’s physics

On acknowledgments

Chick-lit helps

Happy Birthday: ‘Catch-22’

Nobel-winning sentences

Skinny Marilyn myth

A Rawlsian Egypt?

Author-on-author insults

Peter Falk, R.I.P.

Sarah Palin, the poet

The Leary trove

Chug for growth

Gaga and Žižek

Enigmatic René Magritte

Lessons from Libya?

Babies prefer Picasso

How to do a Grayling

Mismeasure of S.J. Gould

Reasons against E-books

Please wash your hands

Novel academic novels

No jokes, please

Was Neruda poisoned?

Smurfs are bad people

Mao’s ghostwriter

SlutWalks and feminism

If Eagleton ruled the world

Dirty Talk of the Town

Hitchens’s cancer essays

Translations lost

Return of Odysseus

The Baffler is back

Why animals play

Most will be missed

(Fake) Prison diary of DSK

Picasso’s erotic code

Niall Ferguson, history boy

Tina Brown

Book culture

Dead authors on Twitter

Canon fodder

Norman Mailer’s apartment

Covering Lolita

Buying expensive wine?

Physical criticism

Legal untruths

Ian McEwan’s reading list

Lost Wittgenstein

Apprentices and interns

World’s best blogger?

Poetry as a career

Holy Warcraft

Larry Summers is back

Origins of language

Martin Amis on Royal family

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The God particle

Literature and dictators

Eichmann in Jerusalem

LOL

Literary allergy

First homosexual caveman

Most incredible cookbook

Insulted by authors
Political science goes awry

Manning Marable, R.I.P.

Worst jobs in history

Noise kills
Clowns: a eulogy
Airport carpets

Tasting durian
Da Vinci’s slip-up
Harvard boys go nation-building
Young pundits

Is God making you fat?

Genetic typo

A cure for writer’s block
Photos of the Western Frontier

Tarzan goes global
Simone de Beauvoir revival
Fukushima is not Chernobyl
Margin notes?

German plagiarist

Schlesinger’s Papers
Al-Qaeda beauty tips

End of the road

Art
of police report
Daisy
Buchanan’s mansion
David
Broder, R.I.P.
Confessions
of a book slob
Wole Soyinka
on Lagos
Paris
and Chagall

Gadhafi’s enablers

Eugene Fodor, R.I.P.

Dr. Seuss, social scientist

Ben Franklin on older women

A Seminar With Gadhafi
#JamesFrancoFacts
The real Ginsberg
Ken at 50
Prison economics

House of pain

Tourist photos

Tyra Banks at Harvard

Do islands make us fat?

Poetry, fact-checked

Lure of lists

Shakespeare, revised

Lethem on the Left Coast

Heart-shaped history

Martin Amis and children
Hegel in Cairo
Pancho Villa’s finger
Céline, absolute bastard
Why are professors liberal?
A night with Salinger
Amis Out, Tóibín in

NFL: No more Roman numerals
Why Tunis? Why Cairo?
Brain Sparks Bright Ideas
Leon Uris, Macho Man
Egyptian antiquities looted
Milton Babbitt, R.I.P.
Tyranny of the alphabet
Mona Lisa, Muslim?
Reynolds Price, R.I.P.
Amazing abs
Hockney’s iPad
Melville and Hawthorne
Wilfrid Sheed, R.I.P.
Dogs in cars
Michelin sham
Heart of toilet roll
John Gross, R.I.P.
Darwin’s rape whistle
Ancient winemaking
American tragedy
Haiku economics
Fukuyama on Huntington
Tears and signals
Indian rat-catchers
Modern novels
Maurizio Pollini
Study vs. study
Freud, by Bacon
Unmasking food critics?
No more Kodachrome
Discover Britten!
China will be next
Stalin’s super-warriors
White swans of Xmas
Wallace and Wittgenstein
Was Christmas German?
Evolutionary cannibalism
Alcohol myth
Top 14 astronomy pictures
Schama on Arianna
Philosophy of wine
How to write a student paper
Liu Xiaobo’s empty chair
Real da Vinci code
Out of the gutter
Idaho loves food stamps
John Cage’s 4’33″

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Left Hand Links 2011