Our pals at Book Riot have a Kickstarter going right now.

At Los Angeles Review of Books, Brían Hanrahan on Walter Benjamin.

Colin Dickey gives Largehearted Boy a handful of songs about saints.

It ain’t easy getting the world’s libraries online.

Probably our favorite title for a piece this week comes thanks to the New York Observer: “Faith, Hope, and Singularity: Entering the Matrix with New York’s Futurist Set.”

Dent May played Mercury Lounge.

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