Purveyor of Iniquities

These eight skin-care resolutions for 2008 are simple and inexpensive. Research in medical journals supports some of them.

As Wilson puts it, “It’s hard to imagine an audience that could confer less cool on a musician.”

His book, which is a distillation, if I may put it like that, of his celebrated Wall Street Journal column of the same name, is by far the wittiest and the most comprehensive study of the subject since the author of Lucky Jim laid down his pen.

When Michael Jordan was asked to endorse a Democratic senatorial candidate during his playing career, he demurred with a famous reply: “Republicans buy sneakers too.”