Links for Thursday 30 December 2010
- LRB · August Kleinzahler · Diary
- I really enjoyed this description of a road trip in the American West, although it’s for subscribers only.
- The battle of Towton: Nasty, brutish and not that short | The Economist
- Fascinating account of a War of the Roses battle from an excavated mass grave. I didn’t know men of the time weren’t much shorter than the average today (people shrank in the Victorian era). (via Kottke)
- LRB · John Lanchester · Let Us Pay
- On the future of the newspaper industry. Many good nuggets, including: “New York Times, if it stopped printing a physical edition of the paper, could afford to give every subscriber a free Kindle. Not the bog-standard Kindle, but the one with free global data access. And not just one Kindle, but four Kindles. And not just once, but every year.”
- LRB · David Runciman · Look…
- For this: “a new divide in British public life: between the people who say ‘Look…’ and the people who say ‘So…’”
