A note from Arianna Huffington

Literary daybook, Jan. 8

"Nicholas Nickleby"

Thought control

Voodoo economics: The sequel

Crystal bawl

"Two Weeks Notice"

Football: America's favorite homoerotic sport

"A Third Face" by Samuel Fuller

"The Voice of the Poet: John Ashbery"

Joe Conason's Journal

Missy Elliott: "Under Construction"