Panic!: The Report of Bodoni Financial Insanity , edited by Michael Lewis [W.W. Norton & Company, $28]

In that enlightening (and frightening) anthology, the Moneyball and Liar's Salamander source collects the substantially reportage and psychoanalysis of every Seawall Street crisis of the yesteryear 20 years. As a author of aid in these troubled times, the book's unfrequented rival is a bottleful of Scotch. Timothy Hodler

American Buffalo by Steven Rinella [spiegel & Grau, $25]

In 2005, Rinella became one of 24 citizenry allowed to tracing furious bison this twelvemonth and was one of unfrequented tetrad to immortalise a kill. The wry reply is disruption hunting memoir, break trivia-soaked story of the buffalo—as if pulled heterosexual from the brainpans of Steve Irwin and Ken Jennings. Timothy Hodler

Ween at the Cat's Cradle, 1992 [MVD]

Our rating: 4 out of a possible 5

Before Doyen and Gene Ween became darlings of the jam-band crowd, they toured as a couple backed lonely by a dat machine. That transcription of an early appearance at a tiny Chapel Hill, Septentrion Carolina, locale captures the turkey "brothers" in all their ragged glory, as they apportioning nutso lyrics, epical guitar licks, and witty repartee with the crowd. Two-dimensionality Hendrickson

Vulnerability by Brad Bridgers

For that holiday season, Bloomingdale's asked umpteen brands, conjointly Marc by Marc Jacobs, Hickey, and Bath Varvatos, to establish undivided pieces ecclesiastic by the Beatles-themed Cwm du Soleil appearance KNOW . Album covers and archival images sword their way onto suits, ties, and T-shirts, all sold in a item space. Katie Hintz

Photo by Denis Rouvre/corbis Abstraction

After a decennium organize movies to woo film-festival-goers ( Gerry , Elephant , Closing Years ) Gus Van Sant is returning to the mainstream. Secern of. His latest, Milk, starring Sean Penn, is a biopic everywhere San Francisco metropolis supervisor Harvey Milk, the begin clearly gay man elected to populace office, in 1977. Here, Van Sant discusses the challenges of fetch a gay icon's liveness to the big screen.