Patricia Hampl | American Scholar | 1 March 2012 Intriguing suggestion that Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up sets the tone for the modern American autobiographical essay, which "tell[s] a story and then think[s] about it — all in the same work" Comments Aluf Benn | Haaretz | 2 March 2012 Haaretz says Israeli PM's planned trip to Washington is the most fateful of his career. He arrives in a position of strength, but his relationship with Obama is famously poor and his strategy towards Iran entails great risks Comments Marilynne Robinson | Guernica | 1 March 2012 On human nature and the good society. "Our civilisation has recently chosen to identify itself with a wildly oversimple model of human nature and behaviour, and then is stymied or infuriated by evidence that the models don't fit" Comments Tina Rosenberg | Foreign Policy | 1 March 2012 Profile of Patrick Ball, pioneering American statistician who has systematised what was previously an anecdotal process of making death counts for atrocities and civil wars. "His methods have changed our understanding of war" Comments Elaine Blair | NYRB | 17 February 2012 Extremely intelligent overview of Michel Houellebecq's career to date, with special attention to his newest novel, The Map and the Territory. Key line: "We are not all shut-ins, but we are all afraid of being unloved" Comments Robert Krulwich | NPR | 29 February 2012 Gigantic bugs called "tree lobsters" lived on an island near Australia. Until rats killed them off in 1918. But wait: Scientists have found a few still living on the next island. If you like stick insects, you'll love this story Comments | 
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