Things to Read Around the Web:

New Fanzine review of the film Frost/Nixon by Adam Underhill; Ron Howard’s distinguished adaptation of the stage production by the same name. Between Obama and the Press by Mark Leibovich for the New York Times Magazine details Robert Gibbs and the president-elect’s communications team and strategy.

Metro Station Under Construction, Culver City

Beyond Iraq: A New U.S. Strategy for the Middle East by Richard N. Haass and Martin Indyk, in the January/February Issue of Foreign Affairs. Summary: To be successful in the Middle East, the Obama administration will need to move beyond Iraq, find ways to deal constructively with Iran, and forge a final-status Israeli-Palestinian agreement. Obama and Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg from Project Syndicate.

From Project Syndicate/Institute for Human Sciences in the New Republic online, A Lasting Poison by Norman Manea: A great writer’s complicity in the face of Stalinism. Vasectomia, and Other Cures for the Sloth by Christopher Turner in Cabinet Magazine online. From the San Diego Weekly Reader, a quick review of Darker My Love by William Crain.

Slavoj Zizek Meets Bernard-Henri Levy at the New York Public Library by Levi Asher from Literary Kicks: Opinions, Observations and Research. And find the New York Public Library’s podcast here.