Amy Davidson | New Yorker | 23 May 2012 "In the interest of civility and electoral prudence, neither Obama nor Romney can initiate a conversation about what it means to be Mormon. The rest of us should, because the story is complicated, fascinating, and utterly American" Comments Toomas Hendrik Ilves | Policy Review | 30 March 2012 View from Estonia. Europe demanded solidarity among its members without also enforcing responsibility. Profligate countries got a free ride on the back of thrifty ones. At last the thrifty are crying "enough", and rightly so Comments Bruce Hood | Edge | 17 May 2012 Starts slowly, but skip through the first dozen paragraphs to the stuff on sentimental objects, and it's absolutely gripping. "The question is, would a child think that a machine that duplicates objects could duplicate minds?" Comments Raffi Khatchadourian | New Yorker | 13 February 2012 Just ungated. Dallas Wiens lost his face in an electrical accident. Burned down to the skull. Surgeons gave him another one. A transplant. Procedure is new, rare, long and complicated. 19 tried. Only this one has worked well Comments Ray Dolan | Times Higher Education | 24 May 2012 Fan of 40 years reflects on music of Van Morrison: "If the music of Astral Weeks had mined a deep vein of human pain then Moondance provided an acute contrast, being in equal measure romantic, life-affirming and celebratory" Comments Philip Hensher | Telegraph | 23 May 2012 On the Gatsby renaissance. Why now? "The novel, with its clear sense that money comes and goes, and that detachment from opulence is as empty a gesture as indulgence in it, seems to come to mind whenever we aren't doing so well" Comments | 
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