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Downtown for Democracy is presenting Where's My Democracy, two back-to-back fundraising readings introduced by Jonathan Safran Foer. The authors involved include some of the most well-known names in contemporary letters: Paul Auster, Michael Cunningham, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, Gary Indiana, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Sontag, Wendy Wasserstein and Colson Whitehead, as well as Lou Reed and other special guests.

Obsessions
The central allegation - that Mr Bush was so obsessed with going after Saddam Hussein that he openly challenged his counter-terrorism adviser to find a link between September 11 and Iraq the day after the attacks took place - is serious.
Through all this commotion and vitriol over Richard Clarke's 9/11 Commission testimony there is a pervading aura of the surreal. I say that because, at least in its broad outlines, little he has said is even that controversial.
· Declassifying documents in order to smear Richard Clarke
· Just look at the fiasco that my homeland had created by following the leader on his alice and wonderland search for weapons
· See Also Tim Dunlop: Reading Richard Clarke's book is a reminder of our much of the exercise of government power is kept secret from we the people and that there really needs to be more openness.
· See Also (Freedom Fighters like Nelson Mandella) would be banned from selling memoirs about their time in crime