remainders

The very excellent Meg was kind enough to profile me for her travel blog over at Momondo. * Elaine Sciolino reports for the New York Times on France's "quiet revolution" towards sex taboos (French women in the suburbs of Paris want to practice the Kama Sutra for three days without stopping! That sounds... time consuming!) * Sanjay Subrahmanyam considers what he finds to be the condescending tone of the latest Booker winner for the London Review of Books * James Wood in conversation with Mark Greif of n+1 along with Ruth Franklin and Dennis Loy Johnson on The Great American Novel, from a couple of years ago * Also by Mark Greif, in the LRB, a serious look at the underlying assumptions of Mad Men, which reads as outdated as the series itself, given that Greif concentrates entirely on the first season (whereas in the US, the second season has just concluded). I know it's for a British audience, who are a season behind, but surely hardcore fans of the show in England have been downloading the second season from the internet-- many of Greif's reproaches  have been resolved or explored more thoroughly in season 2. In any case, it's an insightful read, even if Greif avoids getting his hands too dirty in his analysis.