As this decade sinks towards an end, its frothy beginnings now feel like a dream. Did all that really happen? Full Article at The Independent

Family fortunes: Roger Federer (right) says he has found being a father to twins "quite easy" and will have them with him at the ATP World Finals Photo: AP The American novelist David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide last year, would have... Full Article at The Telegraph

I loathe [Andre] Agassi with a passion,” wrote the late great David Foster Wallace. Full Article at Globe and Mail

• The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921, by Isaac Deutscher {Magnificient biography finally back in print, along with Volumes II and III. Full Article at Snarksmith

Changing My Mind Occasional Essays Zadie Smith The Penguin Press: 306 pp. , $26.95 Reviewing Zadie Smith's 2001 debut, "White Teeth," the critic James Wood lumped the blazing hot young British writer with no less than Salman Rushdie, David Foster... Full Article at Los Angeles Times

• The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921, by Isaac Deutscher {Magnificient biography finally back in print, along with Volumes II and III. Full Article at Snarksmith