Jen Cutts
Review: We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy
Some questions are inherently annoying: are we there yet? Is that seat taken? Are women funny? But is it better to ignore or engage with the children/moviegoers/magazine columnists who ask them? Marie Claire’s Kohen could not resist the urge to take on that last one, infamously explored by Christopher Hitchens in a 2007 Vanity Fair essay. Or rather, Kohen lets the women (and their male colleagues) answer.
Parliamentarian of the year, 2011 (best represents constituents): Michael Chong
A principled maveric
REVIEW: A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation
Book by Tal McThenia and Margaret Dunbar Cutright
REVIEW: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Book by Rachel Joyce
Estonia already offers free WiFi. Next up: free public transit
The mayor of Tallinn hopes to make the city ‘the flagship of the green movement in Europe’
REVIEW: The Lifeboat
Book by Charlotte Rogan
Twinned: the Scottish hamlet of Dull and the town of Boring, Oregon
There’s no real rush. Not much happens in Boring
REVIEW: The Land of decoration
Book by Grace McCleen
Cyprus cozies up to Russia
Cypriot officials let a Russian ship loaded with ammunition sail on to Syria
REVIEWS: The Translation of the Bones
Book by Francesca Kay
How the British used a fake rock to spy on Russia
Former U.K. chief of staff admits what the Russians already knew
China’s panda census
For the next year, more than 100 people will be across the mountains of central China in search of the endangered animals