Blaine Harden | Guardian | 16 March 2012 Shin In Geun is probably the only person to have been born in, and escape from, a North Korean camp for political prisoners. His account of the cruelty and viciousness of life inside Camp 14 is harrowing almost beyond belief Comments Slavenka Drakulic | Eurozine | 15 March 2012 Travelling from Venice to Lampedusa prompts reflections on changing nature of Italian society, how migration is re-shaping old Europe and challenging it both politically and culturally. Interesting throughout Comments John Terborgh | NYRB | 15 March 2012 "One starry evening, after we had both had a few beers, an Amazonian acquaintance of mine loosened up and recounted to me the life he had led as a child before his extended family established contact with the outside world" Comments Thomas Frank | MIT Press Journals/Baffler | 16 March 2012 America suffers three big self-inflicted wounds in barely a decade: "New Economy" bubble, war in Iraq, banking crash. Yet nobody gets held to account, nobody gets shamed. Neither among the principals, nor the pundits (PDF) Comments Gordon Marino | NYT | 17 March 2012 Revisiting Kierkegaard's writings on anxiety. Not a man who would have sided with our current propensity to treat with medication. Indeed he said that "whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate" Comments Joseph O'Neill | Atlantic | 14 March 2012 Netherland author on the shape-shifting novelist. He is his brilliantly self-diagnosing and self-disputing writer-narrators, the invented character Philip Roth, Roth the author of fiction, Roth the (pseudo) memoirist and more Comments | 
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