1. George Bush, Nicholas Kristof and the Hunger Games
2. On the rich symbolism and ribald comic vitality of Pedro Almodovar’s I’m So Excited
3. Transnational Gender Vertigo (deserves a post all to itself. highly recommended)
4. The Man of Steel is no-one’s fictive kin
5. Ed Carr wonders whether ethnographies should have an expiration date. Tobias Denskus responds.