So many jokes about being quixotic: searching for the bones of Cervantes.

• What does Lord Grantham’s Downton Abbey family have in common with Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof?

• The collected blurbs of Gart Shteyngart.

• Sheila Heti talks to Joan Didion in the latest issue of The Believer.  There’s an exclusive excerpt up now.

• Hannah Arendt: not the biggest fan of Israel.

• Lana Del Ray was better in Sixteen Candles than she was on this past weekend’s Saturday Night Live.

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