Land Divers (New York Review of Books)

By Claire Messud The burglar stood at the bedroom window and watched them drive the Mini into the garage. They'd had the car windows open and Noddy and Cissy had been singing, very loudly, the calypso carol the lower school choir would perform at the Christmas concert: 'See him a-lying on a bed of straw, drafty stable with an open door...'

The meddling Prince is right to speak out (Times Online)

I can see that it must be infuriating. The planning application went in two years ago, the plastic models were growing dusty, the Candy brothers had all sorts of wild ideas to provide fur fridges for the mink coats and heated tarmac in the car parks.

Vogue editor launches new war on size-zero fashion (Times Online)

The editor of Vogue has accused some of the world’s leading catwalk designers of pushing ever thinner models into fashion magazines despite widespread public concern over “size-zero” models and rising teenage anorexia.

Cron will continue to work his arts on the All Black scrum (allblacks.com)

The renowned "scrum doctor" Mike Cron has re-signed with the NZRU, and he will continue to work with the All Black's and New Zealand teams to ensure continued success in their set piece.

[cover] Bodies and Souls : The queer community in Monterey County finds common cause – and new common meeting grounds. ... (Monterey County Weekly)

Nickolas J. McDaniel was born with a birth defect: “My physical sex was female,” he says. It was 1972 in Salinas, and McDaniel’s family had strong, Southern Baptist faith and conservative family values. His mother, who worked retail and other odds-and-ends jobs, was delighted to finally give birth to a daughter; she already had two older sons. But while McDaniel’s family looked at him and saw a ...

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