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.