LongReads Round-Up Volume Four

#Anarchy  

Portland based activists have responded to grand jury subpoenas for testifying with silence:  http://truth-out.org/news/item/11181-facing-grand-jury-intimidation-fear-silence-and-solidarity

A third Northwest activist jailed for refusing to testify: http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/third_northwest_activist_jailed_for_staying_silent/

#Art

A Rothko painting was defaced at Tate by a “rebel” artist: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct/08/defaced-tate-modern-rothko

#Biography

Looking for Kim Philby: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n19/tom-carver/diary

Nazi resisters Bonhoeffor and von Dohanyi: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/oct/25/tragedy-dietrich-bonhoeffer-and-hans-von-dohnanyi/?pagination=false 

#Current Events

Deported American veteran now keeps a home for other veterans in Mexico: http://prospect.org/article/farewell-arms-and-united-states #Immigration

Politicians are ignoring climate change: http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/10/why-arent-politicians-listening-joe-romm-climate-change #Environment

What will Mitt Romney do to America? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/is-there-life-after-mitt.html?_r=1 #Politics

Lance Armstrong and the Doping Case: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/sports/cycling/agency-details-doping-case-against-lance-armstrong.html?_r=1&hp #Sports

#Feminism

This author believes she was discounted because she is a woman writing about religion: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news-events/harvard-divinity-bulletin/articles/the-pen-is-mightier

#Humor

Cute animals take cute baths: http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/the-greatest-moments-in-the-history-of-bathtime

Top Ten Fictional Hangover: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2010/dec/26/tom-waits-pgwodehouse#/?picture=370029069&index=0

#International

Where is the Pakistani condemnation of the Malala shooting? http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/10/We_Are_All_Malala

China's dissemination of public information to flame certain individuals: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/what-is-a-human-flesh-search-and-how-is-it-changing-china/263258/

The Nobel Peace Prize might be a joke: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/12/worst_prize_ever

#Literature

The Art of Translating Literature: http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/marilyn-hacker-the-paradox-of-translation/

2012 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Mo Yan: http://www.themillions.com/2012/10/chinese-novelist-mo-yan-wins-the-nobel-prize-for-literature.html

Short fiction by Mo Yan: http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Frogs

Short piece by http://readthebestwriting.com/?p=1097

In memory of the late Kingsley Amis: http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=18815

Essay by Walker Percy on the joys of Bourbon: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.764/article_detail.asp

Thinking about poems: http://therumpus.net/2012/10/the-last-poem-i-loved-oh-karma-dharma-pudding-and-pie-by-philip-appleman/ #poetry

Writing a Booker Prize Winner: http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/hilary-mantel/eyes-prize?page=full

Short fiction by Chris Drangle: http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Exit-Music

Literary titans writing about censorship: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/01/literary-icons-on-censorship/

#Religion

Fundamentalist support for Mitt Romney: http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/fundamentalists_for_mitt/

Is it impossible to criticize Islam? http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/oct/11/can-islam-be-criticized/

Chinese Muslims face cultural difficulties: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/10/201210493210185606.html

Druid biker and Arthur Pendragon Reincarnate: http://www.vice.com/read/all-hail-king-arthur-uther-pendragon

#Science #Technology

Its the best time to be a physicist http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/blog/quantum-optics-physics-nobel/

Revealing the identity of an internet troll: http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web