Miscellaneous and Fast

• SOX First reviews "The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr.
• The riveting action of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." Le Carre made the boredom of espionage an art form. [And those were the books I enjoyed before he wandered off into the fever swamps.]
• The Clancey Brothers and Tommy Makem: "Haul Away Joe."
• Melanie Phillips reports on an odd case of lip-reading in Britain.