Friday, June 12, 2009
Books / Politics / News Sound Smart, Read These: Time for a Check-Up
Posted by Mark Asch on Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:11 PM
As we gear up for a major debate on healthcare reform, the New York Review of Books digs way, way in.
A Washington Heights charter school tests out new theories about more aggressive, competitive markets for good teachers. (See also: this reasonably not-terrible Malcolm Gladwell article on teaching.)
How the American fascination with its Cuban playground created a standoff that does no one any good.
Reminiscences from the now 92-year-old secretary who helped Fitzgerald write The Last Tycoon.
Heinz von Lichberg's "Lolita", meet Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.
New fiction: The New Yorker's double Summer Fiction Issue came out last week; the only story freely available online is "Good Neighbors", by Jonathan Franzen.
Old Clip: Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan.
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