Jeff Madrick & Frank Partnoy | NYRB | 24 October 2011 Financial firms on Wall Street and elsewhere unambiguously and overwhelmingly created the conditions that led to catastrophe. Yet not a single criminal charge has been filed against anyone at a major bank. Why is this? Comments Sy Montgomery | Orion | 25 October 2011 What goes on in the mind of an octopus? "As we gazed into each other’s eyes, Athena encircled my arms with hers, latching on with first dozens, then hundreds of her sensitive, dexterous suckers. She changed colour beneath my touch" Comments Bill Donahue | Wired | 21 October 2011 "The Institute for Biomedical Problems is a world leader in the torture of isolation." But even it has never tried anything like this before. Locking six brave men in a tiny capsule. For 520 days. To test our ability to reach Mars Comments Marshall Auerback & Rob Parenteau | Naked Capitalism | 24 October 2011 "Reading the press, one gets the impression of a bunch of lazy Mediterranean scroungers, enjoying one of the highest standards of living in Europe while making the frugal Germans pick up the tab. This is nonsensical propaganda" Comments Frederic James | LRB | 20 October 2011 Review of newly translated novel by Danish 1917 Nobel prizewinner. Doesn't sound compelling, but read on. Interesting throughout, especially on nature of rebellion in Nordic countries, and problems of writing novels about business Comments Mark Van de Walle | Paris Review | 24 October 2011 Portrait of Steve Lowe: Writer of pornographic novels, assistant to William Burroughs, California hotelier, countercultural hub. "He was the center of an elaborate network of near-mystical coincidence whose tendrils ran everywhere" Comments | 
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