The evolution of Tetris.

Jesmyn Ward’s “Cattle Haul” is this week’s story up at Recommended Reading.

Hemingway’s boyhood home has been purchased.

Judge Michael Robbins presides over at HTML Giant.

Happy 65th birthday to Nabokov’s Bend Sinister.

ESG’s last dance.

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