Wallace Shawn gives us what is possibly the greatest summer reading (non) lists ever.  God bless America, and God bless Wallace Shawn.

• “So now you know the words to our songs.  Pretty soon you’ll all be singing along.” – Jarvis Cocker is publishing a book of his song lyrics.  Even though we know all of them already, we will probably buy it.  (And yes, the quote is from a Pulp song.  So sue us for being fans.)

• The music issue of The Believer is out.

• Taking a look at a post-American world with Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World: Release 2.0. 

• The modernists of New England.

• Fifty years after Hemingway killed himself...