At EmDashes, the four covers created for the 85th anniversary issue of The New Yorker.

• Was Hamlet gay?

• Superman goes for a million.

• The Rumpus lets us know about new fiction on Muumuu House by Megan Boyle

• Faulkner as a mascot?

• Three Guys One Book talk about spring indies.

• At The Faster Times, Michael Kimball Interviews Christopher Higgs