• The year's 100 top thinkers, or, at least, the top 100 according to Foreign Policy.
• Averroës' defense of philosophy. (Humanities)

Scarlet Hat
ink and pastel on paper 29.2 x 41.9 cm (11.5" x 16.5")

• The Africa boom. (Foreign Affairs)

Actor
gouache on paper 21.3 x 26.9 cm (8.4" x 10.6")

A mediocre effort.

• Money and art? A good combo? (The New Republic)

Garbage
gouache on paper 30.5 x 45.7 cm (12" x 18")

• A different Jacqueline Kennedy. (Vanity Fair)
• Milosz mania. (The Times Literary Supplement)

Mosque
ink on paper 8.9 x 11.4 cm (3.5" x 4.5")

Korea's Got Talent: Sung-Bong Choi

• What's with the Warhol art market? (More Intelligent Life)
• The origins of Occupy Wall Street. (The New Yorker)

Small Girl
ink on paper 27.9 x 38.1 cm (11" x 15")

• So much for a college education. ( Los Angeles Review of Books)
• A master of self-marketing: Kurt Vonnegut. (New York Observer)

Headless
digital image - original image: 11.4 x 8.9 cm (4.5" x 3.5")

• Whatever happened to the fur coat? (HistoryToday)
• Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures. (The New Yorker)
• An audio slideshow of Degas and the Nude, now on at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. (The New Yorker)

Hand on Shoulder
graphite on paper 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14" x 11")

• Art, subversion, and the Penguin Modern Classics. (The New York Times)

Blue Girl
digital image - original image: 35.6 x 22.9 cm (14" x 11")

This is a digital transformation of an ink and pastel drawing. The original was orange and dark green.

Bent Over
charcoal and pastel on paper 38.1 x 27.9 cm (15" x 11")

• Albert Camus' bond to Judaism. (Tablet)
• The romance of beer. (The New Republic)

Purple Face
charcoal and pastel on paper
22.9 x 30.5 cm (9" x 12")

Hmmm.

• Much ado about nothing? The American university. (The New York Review of Books)
• Losing it. (The Chronicle)

Orange Knees
oil on paper 30.5 x 45.7 cm (12" x 18") ■

This one I struggled with.

Sylvain Chauveau: Nuage

• Robert Rauschenberg as photographer. (The New Yorker)

Orange Meditation
gouache on paper 45.7 x 30.5 cm (18" x 12")

This figure is a little taller than I wanted; and, by the way, orange is far from my favourite colour.

• Always blame your mother. (The Atlantic)

Bodrum
graphite on paper 8.9 x 11.4 cm (3.5" x 4.5")

This slight sketch is of the bay at Bodrum, Turkey, as seen from the Castle of St. Peter.