Farhad Manjoo | Fast Company | 17 October 2011 The four American companies that have come to define 21st century information technology and entertainment are on the verge of war. Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will fight it out across many markets. The rest are dust Comments Marcy Wheeler | Atlantic | 17 October 2011 First there was the implausibility. Now there appear to be significant holes in the legal case presented against Manssor Arbabsiar, the used-car salesman accused of plotting to blow up the Saudi ambassador in Washington Comments Alec Bings | McSweeney's | 17 October 2011 Promising new column about life as a civil servant in Washington, DC. "For those of us who depend on the whim of the Oval Office to give our lives purpose, election-time tends to hand us a professional kind of schizophrenia" Comments Will Davies | New Left Review | 16 October 2011 New political interest in happiness and wellbeing is bringing psychology and economics together again after a century of separation. Leading to re-evaluation of work. Used to be viewed as a curse. But unemployment is far worse Comments John Jeremiah Sullivan | GQ | 17 October 2011 Writer and family move from one-bed apartment to big neo-colonial house in Wilmington, North Carolina. But, oops, how to pay the mortgage? The house had been used in TV shows and films before. So why not again? Fun stuff Comments Carol Dyhouse | History Today | 18 October 2011 On the rise and fall of the fur coat. Once the height of luxury. Skunk or polecat if you couldn't afford mink. What did for it wasn't so much animal rights as central heating and new fashions of the swinging sixties Comments | 
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