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WHAT DARWIN GOT WRONG.
By Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 264 pp. $26

THE SOURCE: “The Death of Fiction” by Ted Genoways, in Mother Jones, Jan.–Feb. 2010.

Photo of statue of Joseph Pulitzer by Pete Toscano via flickr

Today, as newspapers are shuttered and reporters panhandle for work, it's worth remembering Joseph Pulitzer, whose taste for sensationalism and sense of public service midwifed American journalism into the modern era.

In the age of Google and YouTube, there's no such thing as terra incognita. But it's still possible to travel to unknown places—with a little imagination.

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Al Qaeda and the Taliban are at odds, and even Internet jihadis are taking fewer cues from Osama bin Laden. Yet it is only growing more difficult to defeat the global jihad.

MEMOIR:
A History.
By Ben Yagoda.
Riverhead. 291 pp. $25.95

THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION:
America in 2050.
By Joel Kotkin.
Penguin. 320 pp. $­25.95

THE FOURTH PART OF THE ­WORLD:
The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name.
By Toby Lester.
Free Press. 462 pp. $­30

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