One normally doesn’t tout the quarterly edition of an alumni magazine as scintillating reading, but I’m often surprised by what I discover in mine. Nestled among the names of those who are working on PhDs, or writing books or having babies, or doing nothing because they have died,
I’ve been saving money from my sale of used books to buy a secondhand copy of Haruki Murakami’s latest tome, 1Q84. Originally the novel sold for over $30. I’ve saved $12 and hope I can find his masterpiece at a bargain price now that a year has passed since its publication. I ad
Hanna Rosin’s new book, The End of Men—and the Rise of Women predicts that within a generation women will rule the nation if not the world. (“Why Testosterone is the New Estrogen” excerpted in More, 9/12, pgs.126-7.) She has some impressive statistics to support her view. More