Hilary Mantel | Guardian | 11 May 2012 "Anne Boleyn is one of the most controversial women in English history; we argue over her, we pity and admire and revile her, we reinvent her in every generation. Her rise is glittering, her fall sordid. God pays her out" Comments Jeffrey Toobin | New Yorker | 14 May 2012 How America's Supreme Court rewrote campaign finance law in the case of Citizens United. "The decision followed a lengthy and bitter behind-the-scenes struggle that produced both secret unpublished opinions and a rare reargument" Comments Malcolm Bull | LRB | 16 May 2012 On the ethical problems of climate change. Should the well-being of future generations take precedence over our own? Are we responsible for the excesses of past generations? All over the world, or just our own compatriots? Comments Anonymous | Spiegel | 14 May 2012 The view from Germany: "Greece has been in intensive care for years, but the patient, instead of recovering, is just getting sicker and sicker." Elections were final straw, it's time to leave the euro. Here's how it could happen Comments Jennifer Kahn | NYT | 11 May 2012 Nine year old Michael is unlike others. His parents took him to see psychologist Dan Waschbusch. Who diagnosed him as a psychopath. "Even if accurate, it’s a ruinous diagnosis. No one is sympathetic to the mother of a psychopath" Comments Michael Paterniti | National Geographic | 15 May 2012 Hong Kong is in flux once more. "Now a Chinese special administrative region, it is being remade yet again under diamond pressure. And increasingly this city of over seven million inhabitants floats on a growing sense of unease" Comments Salman Rushdie | New Yorker | 15 May 2012 Superb short essay in favour of boat-rocking. "Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes." This is where great art comes from. If we believe in liberty, we must celebrate it Comments Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway Papers/Toronto Star | 7 May 2012 Hemingway's old paper, the Toronto Star, has launched a terrific new project to republish his columns. In this piece, from 1923, Hemingway describes the first bullfights he saw – an experience he was to revisit in his first novel Comments | 
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