Some links I've noticed over the last few weeks (when I wasn't paying much attention) but thought I should note (in case I get some time to look at them again):

• Tom Engelhardt: Are Afghan Lives Worth Anything?. Note that Salon's version is retitled "Michael Jackson's death means little to me" -- not that he even mentions Jackson.
• Tom Engelhardt: Borrowed Time: The World at 65: a memoir, at age 65.
• Michael Lewis: The Man Who Crashed the World. On Joseph Cassano and AIG.
• Rory Stewart: The Irresistible Illusion: On Afghanistan.
• Matt Taibbi: The Great American Bubble Machine: On Goldman Sachs. Paul Krugman also wrote, in a somewhat milder vein, on The Joy of Sachs.