John Heilemann | New York | 27 May 2012 President Obama's 2008 campaign traded on hope and his likeability. This time around will be different. Circumstances dictate that it will be a nakedly political campaign, instilling fear about what a Romney presidency would bring Comments Luke Mogelson | GQ | 29 May 2012 Gripping account of 2011 mass prison escape. Taliban tunneled into Kandahar prison from working cement factory they'd set up nearby. Came up in political block of prison. Spirited away hundreds of Taliban inmates overnight Comments Elizabeth Landau | CNN | 28 May 2012 On the science of music. Why do songs get stuck in our heads? What's the connection between memory and music? Can monkeys recognise beats? Why is it so difficult for musicians to start playing a song from a random point in the tune? Comments James Surowiecki | New Yorker | 28 May 2012 On the euro crisis, behavioural economics, and fairness: "In a negotiation where neither side can have what it really wants, and where the least bad solution is as good as it gets, worrying too much about fairness can be suicidal" Comments Austin Collings | Quietus | 25 May 2012 Interview with John Healy, "ex-soldier, ex-boxer, ex-wino and ex-prisoner, turned chess master turned writer". A literary sensation, until he threatened to decapitate his publisher, who responded by pulping Healy's book Comments Ben Yagoda | NYT | 21 May 2012 A pedant's delight. On correct use of the comma. Or when to write "My son John is awesome" rather than "My son, John, is awesome". And why not to use a comma splice: "He used to be a moderate, now he’s a card-carrying Tea Partier" Comments | 
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