Bagheera Discovers Fresh Catnip
"You can just buy this at the Coop—and you've never done it before? What were you thinking?"
Wes Phillips
The eBay Voldemort Confesses
Will Collier tells the tale behind that $250 pre-publication sale of the final Harry Potter volume.
Mee-Yow!
Alexis Petridis reviews Paris Hilton's debut record. "She sings like a woman who has heard of something called singing, can't be sure of exactly what it might entail, but is fairly certain you do something a bit like this."
Mmmmmm, Bacon Salt
Because everything should taste like bacon.
Passchendaele In Color
Everybody knows WWI was in black and white.
The Worst Of The South
The final article of The Oxford American's Best of the South issue is Hal Crowther's splenetic rant about the region's less savory characteristics.
Rational Voters?
Louis Menand's reviewhttp://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/07/09/070709crbo_books…; of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Politics is an interesting read—possibly more interesting than the book itself. However, back in 2004, Gene Weingarten covered the same questions, getting up close and personal with Ted Prus, a non-voter who "just doesn't give a rat's ass."
Farewell, Comma, He Said
Robert J. Samuelson laments the lapsing of the comma.
A Beat Memoir Before the Beats
Jack London's forgotten The Road.
An Abridged Dictionary
Don't pick up that dictionary! You're smart enough to figure out what that new word means.