Headlines from January 28, 2009
- Measuring the blood from January's massacre: 211,500 job cuts so far.
- Notes on the wooing, lobbyists, and millions of opinions involved in the nearly $900 billion stimulus package.
- One opinion: Restore NASA's mission statement of service, please.
- How to prepare yourself for Obama's failures.
- Obama paid more attention to House Republicans than Bush did in most of the last eight years. Why Republicans won't vote for the stimulus.
- Support group for New York girls who got used to dating bankers, or still date their now-broke asses.
- Seriously, people: Dating A Banker Anonymous is real and it has a website, and we are prepared to bet they're looking for a book deal.
- Design star Michael Beirut on the books he keeps by his side every working hour.
- Ten of the coolest gadgets that in 30 years' time may change our lives.
- Why most efficient lightbulbs throw bad light and why most manufacturers don't care.
- You can't have the good without the bad when it comes to Updike, "the funniest writer never to make a career of comedy."
- Updike's succinct rules for reviewing books.
- Foster Wallace's fantastic take (down) on (of) Updike from 1997.
- From 2005, Updike traces the evolution of the book cover as an art form.
- We got your book covers here: The Book Cover Archive.
- Recalling Updike, Josh Allen's back-room reporting on Oprah's decision to cancel her book club.
- Op: I cannot think of any other president with the same kind of personal credibility in such a critical time. Obama is wise to reach out to the Islamic world.
- Alberto Gonzales attempts a comeback; here's the backlash.
- Today's long read: Escaping North Korea, China, Laos, and discovering life in Seoul.
- After causing billions in damages by forecasting financial doom, South Korean blogger tests government's human-rights resolve.
- In Greece, the youth didn't trust the police, didn't have hope--so they rioted.
- Iceland builds new government, expected to appoint the world's first openly gay prime minister.
- Nobody likes the scourge of city surfing, which is overpopulation, and the toughest proletarian surfer would prefer to share the waves with three corporate lawyers than with 30 removals men.
- Everywhere in the world, clean freshwater is dwindling, raising new interest in desalination of saltwater--which is almost everywhere.
- Our neighboring planet served as a shadowy twin onto which earthly concerns, anxieties, and debates were projected. From last month, Updike on Martian robots.
- From 1961, his review of Franny and Zooey for the Times.
- Douglas Coupland: How much less spending can we afford? Where will it take us?
- Blagojevich claims behavior was just elaborate plan to surprise Patrick Fitzgerald with Senate nomination on his birthday.
- Matthew Baldwin opens his annual "Make-Yer-Own Oscar Pool Page."