Chechnya loves Leo Tolstoy.
- PRI on the evolution of Sherlock Holmes.
- James Iha of The Smashing Pumpkins is a fan of Christopher Hitchens.
- The Millions review Richard Rushfield’s Don’t Follow me I’m Lost.
- The Faster Times breaks down where America is translating from.
- Nathan Heller on Zadie Smith:
both an envy object and a kind of hero
- WFMU gives us their top ten magazines that folded in 2009 list.
- Termites making it hard for a Brooklyn library to open.
- A long ass review of Tao Lin’s book, and Tao Lin’s personal decade in review.