Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software By Steven Johnson. Scribner, 288 pages, $25.00 It’s easy to see why there aren’t more books like Steven Johnson’s Emergence: Only Johnson knows how to write them. Johnson was a founder and editor of Feed, one of the Web’s first and best “zines” (now moribund, […]
Harvey Blume
Harvey Blume is a writer in Cambridge.
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Kissinger, In Deed
The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens. Verso, 160 pages, $22.00. From the way that Christopher Hitchens tears into bloated reputations, it’seasy to imagine that in another age he would have spent many a predawn hourhappily preparing to duel. Now he has flung his challenge at Henry Kissinger, aman who generally liked to use the […]