This week's New Yorker has some good articles in it, the best of which is probably Claudia Pierpont's piece on Nietzsche. The article can be found here:

www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?020408crbo_books

It's a very good piece which somehow manages to tie Nietzsche's life in with his thought (I've always believed this to be important, but I've never seen it accomplished so succinctly). It's a sympathetic, but not sychophantic, view of his major works and how his life shaped how his works were brought into being and interpreted.

Read it.