Michael Lewis | Vanity Fair | 8 November 2011 "When I first met Kahneman he was making himself more miserable about his unfinished book than any writer I’d seen. It turned out to be just a warm-up for the misery to come, the start of an extraordinary act of literary masochism" Comments Quinn Norton | Wired | 8 November 2011 Wired embeds journalist with Anonymous. What's not to like? Here's the first of her reports, tracing the history of the hacker group to the 4chan bulletin boards, plus some 18th century antecedents. Prepare to meet the Trickster God Comments Sarah Breger | Moment | 31 October 2011 Western perception of Holocaust is dominated by gas chambers of Auschwitz. But over a third of the murdered six million were killed by bullets much further east, many in Ukraine. A French Catholic priest is uncovering what happened Comments Charles Pierce | Grantland | 7 November 2011 Once the centre of the American sporting and gambling universe. Now the tracks are moribund, limping along on slot-machine revenues. But no-one can take away the history and romance. Horses are less a sport than a way of life Comments Roger Kimball | Literary Review | 6 November 2011 "The shy, socially awkward Wodehouse burned at a low wattage. The librettist Guy Bolton, recalling an innocent dalliance with a chorus girl, spoke of Wodehouse 'sowing his one wild oat.'" Charming piece on one of the great authors Comments Chris Ballard | Sports Illustrated | 8 November 2011 Discouraged for religious reasons from playing sport, a young Jehovah's Witness who would soon be seven feet tall had to decide whether to follow his mother's strict beliefs or his interest in basketball. This is what happened Comments | 
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