Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant

Material Girls, Zola's Game Theory, Tipping Points

• Edinburgh hopes to add a walking tour to the Royal Mile.
• Three refurbished Truman Capote volumes have been released in time for Capote's 80th birthday.
• Unemployed doctoral students may want to consider analyzing Zola. Apparently, it ties into current French politics.
• David Halberstam sinks his teeth into Rathergate.
• Neal Stephenson has shaved his head. And apparently his audience has grown older.
• Andrea Dworkin has written a followup book about the infamous drug-rape.
• The new stamps for 2005: Greta Garbo (check), Henry Fonda (check), The Muppets (check), Richard Fenyman (double check), Arthur Ashe (check) and *sigh* Ronald Reagan.
• Newsday talks with Philip Roth. The big surprise? Apparently, tenderness.
• Richard B. Wright: a literary career forged on endless awards?
• Nympho Bride: Ashcroft's idea of terrorism.
• The New Yorker still has faith in Tipping Point Segmentation technology. What's Gladwell's cut?
• Madonna studying literature at Oxford?