Ken Auletta | New Yorker | 3 December 2012 "She combines the best of her brothers in one package. The brains of James and the heart of Lachlan.” Successful TV producer. Built her own company. Rich. Glamorous husband. But the wrong sex to run News Corp, apparently Comments Adam Curtis | BBC | 30 November 2012 Gripping, provocative slice of political history, illustrated with archive video. This one is subtitled, How the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the Israeli right became co-dependents in an abusive relationship Comments Tony Doukoupil | Newsweek | 3 December 2012 "What might be intuitively true—that soldiers live to regret, in agonizing duration and detail, what war forces them to do—has until now not been part of official knowledge." But new ideas about causes of PTSD are gaining ground Comments Jeremy Denk | New Republic | 15 November 2012 "His logic is unassailable but not tedious. His proofs soar. Bach is a mirror to everything we would like to be. He is almost too good to be true, to be believed. But we believe in Bach on the evidence of the notes themselves" Comments Megan McArdle | Newsweek | 3 December 2012 How can bricks-and-mortar stores cope with the rise of "showrooming" – the people who visit merely to compare prices, sometimes with barcode-analysing apps, before shopping online? Will improving customer service be enough? Comments Ben Zimmer | Boston Globe | 2 December 2012 How do you write authentic 19C dialogue that sounds natural to the modern ear? Answer: You spend a lot of time with dictionaries, then you relax a bit. Kushner's Lincoln isn't historically accurate, but he is dramatically convincing Comments | 
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