Is MIA DOA?

1. Her new album is tanking, she's fighting with Oprah and dissing Gaga -- is this the end of the line for Maya?

2. You've heard of slow food, slow travel, even slow money. But in light of the Wikileaks frenzy and the Shirley Sherrod fiasco, do we need slow journalism?

3. Forget scarves and berets, and verlan is passe. What's cool in France? It's boules.

4. David Shields, fiction, and the hunger for the real.