Sukhdev Sandhu, a literature professor at NYU, has a superb article in the London Review of Books on Hanif Kureishi. Sandhu expertly weaves in a realist matter-of-fact account of British Asian immigrants in his tribute to Kureishi.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n10/sand01_.html
Nicholas Carr explores whether Google is making us stupid. He finds that it is.