The Giant's Shoulders #5, the history of science carnival, is up at PodBlack Cat.

Steven Poole,"The Mischievous Oracle," Guardian, 15 November, reviews Manjit Kumar's Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality.

James Campbell,"Heavy Reading," NYT, 14 November, and Wendy Smith for the Chicago Tribune, 15 November, review Alex Beam's A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books.

David Orr,"Love, Your Ted," NYT, 14 November, reviews Christopher Reid, ed., Letters of Ted Hughes. Hat tip.

Toby Lichtig,"Paul Theroux in Asia," TLS, 12 November, reviews Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, published 35 years after his The Great Railway Bazaar.

Niall Ferguson,"Wall Street Lays Another Egg," Vanity Fair, December, looks through the looking glass, at Planet Finance.