Interesting Articles, Links, Etc.

Some more links. Why do companies buy out startups just to get their employees, rather than just offering them higher salaries, which seems like it would be cheaper? An interesting article in the NYT gives some answers to this puzzle about so-called acqui-hiring in Silicon Valley.1 See also the longer law article by the original …

Allusion and Undertones in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist

I wrote in my introductory post that I am ambivalent about much of contemporary fiction. Well, it's wonderful to come across as singular a counterexample as Mohsin Hamid's beautiful novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist. This is the sort of work that reminds you why you read; I heartily recommend it to all. (A word of advice: …

Interesting Links

I imagine in the blog that I will be sharing various links to articles, etc., that I find interesting. Perhaps lightly annotated. Rather than overburden your RSS feed or whatnot with too many individual entries (cough, cough Andrew Sullivan, who I would subscribe to if there would be some way to do so without it …

Letters to the Living Dead

The eponymous hero of Saul Bellow's Herzog spends his days writing letters. Moses Herzog1 is writing to "everyone under the sun...to the newspapers, to people in public life, to friends and relatives and at last to the dead, his own obscure dead, and finally the famous dead."2 Later, he pauses during one his letters: He …