Light reading

Ken Auletta's profile of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger makes for an extremely interesting read .

It's partly that I've been busy, but it's more that I've been sad and discombobulated in the wake of my friend K.'s deat...

Keeping my head above water, with some good help from funny activities and companions! Including these two . ( Party pics from Friday nig...

Not sure if this link is gated or not (I think not, but it's hard to tell with on-campus ethernet!), but my colleague Rachel Adams' ...

I had a great time teaching this morning - students had read the introductory chapter of Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel and Roland Ba...

My only complaint about this week, if it is a complaint, is that it was too full of a rich and complex variety of things! On Tuesday I tau...

On a more serious note, I think it is important to link to Joyce Maynard's piece about Salinger and why we shouldn't give great arti...

Roald Dahl on the golden age of British chocolate . ( Via .)

An interesting article by Eric LeMay at Salon on the ethos of CrossFit .

I wish I could be there in person, but it's simply not possible - my flight was very much delayed, and I only got home from Madison last...

Good article at the FT about cinematic hair (site registration required): Warn was also a hair designer on The Great Gatsby , a follicular ...

I have to go to this restaurant when it opens and eat the "egg" ! A few weeks ago, in the temporary test kitchen, Mr. Richard was ...

The only trouble with these Jack Reacher books is that they are so short! Done. No new one again for another year....

A very good day in many respects, but tiring. In the morning I had a gorgeous short run along the river (excessive humidity, though). In...

Thoughts on Diana Nyad's memoir from six years ago . (I thought it would be a three-year quest from September 2007 to Ironman, but it ...