Arts & Letters Daily (21 Jan 2010): "
Did our Neolithic ancestors start to grow crops so they could bake bread? Perhaps not: maybe the real point of agriculture was beer... more ... more
American literary culture is insular? Oh, yeah? Are Nigerians all that taken by fiction coming out of Denmark? Do Latvians groove on Philippine poetry?... more
Any European intellectual can easily tell you: Europe, not America, offers the world the best model of social and economic life. But, as Clive Crook explains, the case is not so certain... more
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