Assorted links
1. Book preview for 2015. Good stuff, including volume four of Knausgaard, a new Stephenson, a new Gaiman, a new Ishiguro, a Philip Glass memoir, perhaps the Niall Ferguson book on Kissinger will be interesting too. Here is another preview list. And who was nominated for a literary Nobel Prize in 1964.
2. The pick-up culture that is Chinese.
3. Another (right-wing?) view on why the leading public intellectual economists are left-wing. And more from Krugman.
4. Voodoo and Haitian mental health. And the culture that is Singapore.