Worth a look

From the past week...

• Verlyn Klinkenborg describes the merits of reading aloud (New York Times)

• Sue Halpern reviews a new biography of Warren Buffett alongside Malcolm Gladwell's new book (New York Review of Books)
  

• Robert Draper lets Donald Rumsfeld's former colleagues trash him anonymously (GQ)

• Alex de Waal reviews the new book on the "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) doctrine by Interational Crisis Group president Gareth Evans (Social Science Research Council)
  

• Mapscroll inserts individual U.S. states into the Human Development Index of the world's countries.