Wes Phillips

I'm a huge New Yorker fan, so I wanted this soooo bad when I heard about it—however, every review makes it seem less and less appealing.

Jack London's forgotten The Road.

Unsurprisingly, it's a long story.

Gee, that's funny. I bought the same thing, only mine is shaped like a house.

Yeah, yeah, we all know that you grill burgers'n'brats on the Fourth, but that only takes a few minutes and then yo have all those coals going great. What to do with that lovely fire? Here's a non-intuitive dish that will excite absolutely no one—until they taste it! Then you won't have made enough.

Chet Raymo has a nice essay rebutting Larry Dossey's screed about why science doesn't accept the wisdom of alternative medicine gurus such as Depak Chopra et al.

Evan Thomas and Jeffrey T. Richelson have written books that chart the CIA's legacy of arrogant wrongheadedness.