Elliott Woods | Businessweek | 18 January 2012 Security has improved, the economy is picking up, Iraq is open for business. Well, that's the Iraqi prime minister's message. But what do Iraqis themselves feel about Nouri al-Maliki and the future of their country? Good sit-rep Comments VS Ramachandran | Telegraph | 18 January 2012 Leading neuroscientist explains some of the strange case studies that reveal just how adaptive and miraculous the brain really is. From phantom limbs, to a man who exits a coma only to become convinced his parents are imposters Comments John Holbo | Crooked Timber | 19 January 2012 It's probably a bad idea to let people sell their votes. On the other hand, it could make for more creative politics. "People could donate to candidates, to help them buy votes. You could have eminently populist vote-buying drives" Comments Tim Parks | NYRB | 19 January 2012 There is a problem with the novel. Parks's diagnosis is that fiction is being internationalised and universalised. Writers are no longer anchored in a literary canon or national tradition. Here's the case for why it matters Comments Iris Chang | Atlantic | 18 January 2012 "Dark times paralyze most people, but some very few, for reasons most of us will never understand, are able to set aside all caution and do things even they could not imagine themselves doing in ordinary times" Comments Dov Linzer | NYT | 19 January 2012 Rabbi responds to ultra-Orthodox attempts to send women to the back of the bus in Israel. Talmud's message to men: Problem is not with women in public; it's with the sexualised way you choose to look at them (h/t Stuart Bailey) Comments | 
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