http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7047488.ece
Michael Orthofer at The Complete Review describes an exceptionally interesting literary hoax by French novelist Romain Gary:
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/garyr/pseudo.htm
John Douglas Marshall at Book Beast champions three "overlooked gems" of which I'd been unaware. I'm predisposed to like a book with the vivid title Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-27/three-overlooked-gems/
stevereads follows up his earlier "Nine Lives" list of worthy biographies with nine more:
http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/stevereads/2010/02/nine-lives-2/
The Museo Picasso Malaga has mounted a major retrospective of the Czech modernist painter Frantosek Kupka (1871-1957):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=36302
http://www2.museopicassomalaga.org/i_03_1frameset.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Kupka
This is somewhat hard to believe, but Professor Joseph Weiler is being sued for libel in a French court by Professor Karin Calvo-Goller because he wrote a negative review of her book. This isn't quite at the level of jailing a dissident film director, but it is still a ridiculous assault on free expression. Dear Prof. Calvo-Goller: Get a life.
http://chronicle.com/article/NYU-Professor-Faces-Libel/64370/
The yet-to-be-built Guangzhou Metro Authority, a prize-winning design y Perkins Eastman, will have undeniable presence:
http://www.designscene.net/2010/02/guangzhou-metro-authority-by-perkins.html
That building will be a big statement. But the architectural websites and blogs bring news of appealing little statements, too, such as this command post in Saint Samson, France:
http://www.archdaily.com/50630/command-post-in-saint-samson-bruno-pourveer/
As a major fan of wolverines (well, maybe not in the same room with me), I am delighted that they seem to be cropping up in places where they have long been thought to be eradicated. It is unlikely that all these out-of-place wolverines are escapes, since there would generally be documentation on an escaped wolverine! A wolverine was confirmed with a photograph in Michigan's Lower Peninsula in 2004:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4374309/
http://www.redding.com/news/2009/mar/22/spi-captures-rare-wolverine-on-video/

There have been persistent sightings in Wisconsin, too, and now that I have relocated to Nevada, the wolverines have apparently followed me; there was great excitement when a wolverine was captured on video in the Sierra Nevada Mountains just north of Lake Tahoe in 2008, and it has been seen again in 2009 and 2010:
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14476288
Go wolverines!
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Delighted to have international readers. Could anyone help with a translation? Perhaps the commenter?
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