Stephanie McAfee’s Diary of a Mad Fat Girl (NAL, $15) offers a fascinating tale, but not between its covers. The girl-buddy cape, starring a sassy, overweight Mississippi teacher, brims with local color but is burdened by too much plot and too little nuance. With an endearingly flawed narrator in a conflicted relationship, this is chick-lit territory that many talented writers — Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Wells among them — have explored far more deftly. Read full article > >

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New in paperback: Stephanie McAfee’s ‘Diary of a Mad Fat Girl’

Prime Minister David Cameron has defended the government’s policies on economic growth after a prominent Tory figure said too little was being done.

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Cameron defends economic policy

Abdul Fatah Younis, the head of the Libyan rebels, says he is “disappointed” in NATO for doing too little to protect civilians. “Unfortunately, and I am sorry to say this, NATO has disappointed us. My staff have been in contact with NATO officials to…

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Rebels: ‘NATO Has Disappointed Us’

India announces a number of measures to curb spiralling food prices, but critics say it is too little, too late.

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India seeks to curb food prices

Is it too little too late? With early voting under way in many states, President Obama concluded a multistate tour Saturday in a last ditch effort to temper Republican momentum and urge voters to vote for Democrats in the midterm elections. “Two years…

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Obama’s Last-Ditch Efforts

President Obama is rushing to roll out a new economic plan this week, but his fellow Democrats are confronting a difficult question: Is it too little, too late?

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Obama’s big economic push: Too little, too late?

The U.S. response to the increasing natural disaster in Pakistan is, like so much else when it comes to American relations with that country, too little and too tentative.

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Opinion: U.S. must aid flooded Pakistan

The U.S. response to the increasing natural disaster in Pakistan is, like so much else when it comes to American relations with that country, too little and too tentative.

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Opinion: U.S. must aid flooded Pakistan