• At the Super Bowl, a demonstration of the philosophy of half-time.
• Cissy Patterson: an American journalist’s three-drink claws.
• ‘Poetry is not fashion; it does not need to reinvent itself every five or ten years’.
• Tango star Andrea Missé, 1976-2012.
• Schoolbook battles: Education publishers and their little-read books triumph.

Notes & Comment

• Notes on the complexities of Post-Modernism.
• Postmodernism and history.
• An ‘Iron Lady’ turns to rust.
• A brief guide to Oxford’s ‘Very Short Introductions’.
• Poetry of ‘a detailed curiosity’.

Currente Calamo

• Meet Coco de Mer, potency enhancer.
• Famous last words from publisher Jane Friedman?
• Remember that first marriage? Never happened.
• And this was before the Mayans met Newt Gingrich.
• How a flock of pigeons could save the euro.