Jamil Anderlini | FT | 20 July 2012 Gripping, fullest account yet of rise and fall of one of China's most powerful politicians. On this telling, the corruption, criminality and murder could all have remained hidden were it not for a moment of arrogance Comments Ronen Bergman | NYT | 25 July 2012 On the mystery of the Aleppo Codex, the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible. Some of it is in Jerusalem. The story of how it got there and how some of its pages went missing is to touch the rawest of nerves Comments Kurt Eichenwald | Vanity Fair | 25 July 2012 Compelling, if harsh, takedown of the technology giant – "a high-tech equivalent of a Detroit car-maker" – and its CEO Steve Ballmer. The iPhone alone now generates more revenue than all of Microsoft. What went wrong? Comments Oded Na'aman | Boston Review | 23 July 2012 Inside the mind of an Israeli soldier. A fantastically interesting (if dispiriting) account of the psychology of occupation. Israeli army has power without authority so it must make Palestinians think it is everywhere, and fear it Comments John Kay | John Kay/FT | 25 July 2012 There has been a spate of good allegories recently about the world of finance, and here is another. The story starts at a country fair. You, and everyone else present, are invited to guess the weight of an ox Comments Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik | Wired | 23 July 2012 Nobody survives rabies: It is fatal in all cases. That's what experts told us for millennia. But then a controversial new treatment allowed five to survive. Is there a miracle cure? Or were we wrong to assume rabies always kills? Comments David Remnick | New Yorker | 23 July 2012 Huge feature on Bruce Springsteen, still pumping it out at age 62. "His style in performance is joyously demonic, as close as a white man of Social Security age can get to James Brown circa 1962 without risking a shattered pelvis" Comments Kenan Malik | Pandaemonium | 26 July 2012 Malik is sceptical about the Olympics as an instrument of social good or tool of economic development. And he dislikes the "militarisation" and censorship. But still. It's all about those moments of supreme athletic achievement Comments | 
No comments:
Post a Comment