Bogus trends. Jack Shafer writes Slate's "press box" media criticism column, and he's the scourge of lazy journalists everywhere. In this post, he dismantles a recent New York Times article which claims that e-commerce has peaked.
The world's best untranslated novels. I rather dread the "summer reading" lists that appear at this time of year, since they always add a few more books to my own "must read" pile, which I'm unlikely ever to finish unless scientists dramatically extend the human lifespan. But that's what's so great about this list—there's no way that I'll be able to read any of them, any time soon.
Good fences make good neighbours. I have to link to this post on the academic blog Crooked Timber, simply because the comments are so funny.
The world's best untranslated novels. I rather dread the "summer reading" lists that appear at this time of year, since they always add a few more books to my own "must read" pile, which I'm unlikely ever to finish unless scientists dramatically extend the human lifespan. But that's what's so great about this list—there's no way that I'll be able to read any of them, any time soon.
Good fences make good neighbours. I have to link to this post on the academic blog Crooked Timber, simply because the comments are so funny.
