*Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley
*E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction
*Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All
*Greatly Exaggerated
*David Lynch Keeps His Head
*Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness
*A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

*Big Red Son
*Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think
*Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed
*Authority and American Usage
*The View from Mrs. Thompson's
*How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart
*Up, Simba
*Consider the Lobster
*Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky
*Host

Jo Ann Beard. Werner
Ian Buruma. The Freedom to Offend
Mark Danner. Iraq: The War of the Imagination
W. S. di Piero. Fathead’s Hard Times
George Gessert. An Orgy of Power
Malcolm Gladwell. What the Dog Saw
Mark Greif. Afternoon of the Sex Children
Marione Ingram. Operation Gomorrah
Garret Keizer. Loaded
John Lahr. Petrified
Louis Menand. Name That Tone
Daniel Orozco. Shakers
Cynthia Ozick. Out from Xanadu
Molly Peacock. Passion Flowers in Winter
Phillip Robertson. In the Mosque of Imam Ali
Marilynne Robinson. Onward, Christian Liberals
Richard Rodriguez. Disappointment
Elaine Scarry. Rules of Engagement
Roger Scruton. A Carnivore’s Credo
Peter Singer. What Should a Billionaire Give — and What Should You?
Jerald Walker. Dragon Slayers
Edward O. Wilson. Apocalypse Now

PART ONE - Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varietief of Minor Genius
*The Pitchman - Ron Popeil and the conquest of the American kitchen. (Oct 30, 2000)
*The Ketchup Conundrum - Mustard now comes in dozens of different varieties. Why has ketchup stayed the same? (Sept 6, 2004)
*Blowing Up - How Nassim Taleb turned the inevitability of disaster into an investment strategy. (Apr 22, 2002)
*True Colors - Hair dye and the hidden history of postwar America. (Mar 22, 1999)
*John Rock's Error - What the inventor of the birth control pill didn't know about women's health. (Mar 13, 2000)
*What the Dog Saw - Cesar Millan and the movements of mastery. (May 22, 2006)
PART TWO - Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses
*Open Secrets - Enron, intelligence and the perils of too much information. (Jan 8, 2007)
*Million Dollar Murray - Why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage. (Feb 13, 2006)
*The Picture Problem - Mammography, air power, and the limits of looking. (Dec 13, 2004)
*Something Borrowed - Should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life? (Nov 22, 2004)
*Connecting the Dots - The paradoxes of intelligence reform. (Mar 10, 2003)
*The Art of Failure - Why some people choke and others panic. (August 21, 2000)
*Blowup - Who can be blamed for a disaster like the Challenger explosion? No one, and we'd better get used to it. (Jan 22, 1996)
PART THREE - Personality, Character, and Intelligence
*Most Likely to Succeed - How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job. show more (Dec 15, 2008)
*Dangerous Minds - Criminal profiling made easy. (Nov 12, 2007)
*The Talent Myth - Are smart people over-rated? (Jul 22, 2002)
*Late Bloomers - Why do we equate genius with precocity? (Oct 20, 2008)
*The New Boy Network - What do job interviews really tell us? (May 29, 2000)
*Troublemakers - What pit bulls can teach us about crime. (Feb 6, 2006) show less

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