Miscellaneous and Fast

• Stuart Koehl: Recently published accounts of British heroism in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Rich Lowry: Why the Chinese laughed.
• Fine art: A new exhibit discovers sex in Mayfair.
• Bruce Bawer: The rightward shift in Europe.
• Cathy Young looks at the 60th anniversary of "1984."
• Ed Driscoll on the tasteless David Letterman and the "non-story."