• Small-batch whiskies to the sinfulness of weak pours: A guide to Southern drinking.
• More dictatorial bad taste: the abandoned Yanukovych mansion.
• Women make better combat pilots; stories of the “night witches.”
• GOP: Keep the children fat.
• Too bad about Bitcoin.
• The legend of Shakey’s Pizza and other adventures of American brands overseas.
• The “academic suicide” that is the mysterious Voynich manuscript.
• In memory of the late, wonderful Harold Ramis: An oral history of Ghostbusters.
• New E.L. Doctorow novel to George Will on Wrigley Field: Books to look for in 2014.
• First book from New Pope, The Church of Mercy, in stores by Easter.
• Print and read: “It is the cure for the dog that bit you, and how easily you forget it is also the dog;” Roger Ebert, addict.
• Bonus print and read: Max Boot on Robert Gates, one angry bureaucrat.