There's a nine-page article about Muay Thai in this week's New Yorker (January 16, 2006). Unfortunately it's not one of the ones that they put on their website
http://newyorker.com .
The article is about the author's experience training with Bunkerd Faphimai in San Francisco, and in typical New Yorker fashion goes into detail about the history and science of Muay Thai.
"Although his English was limited, he spoke with an air of sincerity and persuasiveness, and didn't seem bothered by the thought that people might not understand him. His teachings were devoid of any tormented, get-inside-the-other-guy's-head rhetoric. A move either worked ('Easy knock-out') or it didn't ('No fun'). 'No fun,' he said flatly, demonstrating an incorrect stance. 'Lose balance.'"