Rany Jazayerli | Rany On The Royals | 6 November 2012 Most Muslims in America used to vote Republican. Not any more. What happened? This is a light-touch yet biting account of what turned one Republican-leaning Muslim American away from the party Comments Douglas McCollam | CJR | 2 November 2012 How Truman Capote snagged a six-hour interview over a bottle of vodka in Kyoto with the reclusive Marlon Brando in 1957, wrote a landmark profile of him for the New Yorker, and invented the New Journalism 10 years before Tom Wolfe Comments David Simon | Audacity Of Despair | 7 November 2012 "The country is changing. This may be the last election in which anyone but a fool tries to play the cards of racial exclusion, immigrant fear, patronisation of women, and self-righteous discrimination against homosexuals" Comments Ian Johnson | NYRB | 5 November 2012 Review-essay on recent books about the Great Leap Forward and associated famine, which killed tens of millions in China in 1958-62. The more we learn, the more terrible it becomes. Mao ranks with Stalin for murderous megalomania Comments Graeme Wood | Aeon | 7 November 2012 Gay rights in Uganda. "A broad societal revulsion toward homosexuality has erupted into frank attempts to identify, persecute, and ultimately execute gays." But gays push back, seize initiative, switch roles. Struggle not over yet Comments Emma Brockes | Believer | 1 November 2012 Interview conducted last year with legendarily bad-tempered children's author, who died in May. "People are all insane and talking on machines and twittering and twottering. I’m here looking for peace and quiet. A yummy death" Comments | 
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