I have been remiss. Last fall The New Atlantis hired me to do a long piece on Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, with Cryptonomicon as an optional extra. I started reading, promising to post periodic thoughts on The Corner. Well, I didn’t. I am sorry. My piece will be in the forthcoming (Spring ‘07) issue of TNA, though, and I urge you to get a subscription to this excellent magazine & read Derb on Neal. The piece came out longer than I thought–over 5,000 words; but that is, as the TNA editor observed, very much in the Stephenson spirit….

Also forthcoming: Another long piece on Euler in The Wilson Quarterly; a review of Doug Hofstadter’s new book in the Wall St Journal, and a review of Prof. O’Shea’s book on the Poincare Conjecture in the NY Sun (this one not forthcoming–it went up today). Scribble, scribble, scribble….