Bryan Gruley & Cliff Edwards | Businessweek | 17 November 2011 “I honestly and truly thought I was going to have a year to remember. And I did, but in the wrong way,” confesses Sony CEO Stringer, of 2011. Fascinating on what's gone wrong at the electronics giant, and whether things can improve Comments Nathan Heller | Slate | 16 November 2011 I'm working my way through Haruki Murakami's 1,000-page just-released novel, IQ84. This is considered his "magnum opus". But the question remains: Is he even a good writer? What is the secret to his success? Comments Charles Moore | Vanity Fair | 15 November 2011 Sympathetic biographer reassesses life and career of the Iron Lady. She defined an era, never lost a national election (or war), divided the nation like no other British prime minister. A partial account, but a good read Comments Annie Murphy Paul | Time | 16 November 2011 With college education costs going up 10x rate of inflation in past 40 years (and 3x faster than healthcare costs) it's time we look for alternatives. Is Salman Khan of Khan Academy the new Andrew Carnegie of higher education? Comments Willy Staley | The Awl | 8 November 2011 Why is the revolting McDonald's McRib periodically reintroduced, withdrawn and reintroduced again? Does it have anything to do with fluctuating pork prices? Are they playing a marketing trick on us? And what's it made of, anyway? Comments Eric Dursteler | Berfrois | 18 November 2011 Born Beatrice Michiel, a Christian. Abandoned Venice for Ottoman capital, where she joined a harem, converted to Islam. Her epic story illuminates our understanding of gender and religious identity in the early modern Mediterranean Comments | 
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