How New York has changed since Annie Hall.

Mira Ptacin contributes another smart and brave essay at The Rumpus.

Laurie Penny of The New Inquiry takes to London’s underground before the Olympics.

So Danny Boyle is going William Blake/Steampunk for the opening of the London Olympics?

Mishka Shubaly (who read at last evening’s Greatest 3-Minute Punk Stories part 2) has a new Kindle Single.

The Cloud Atlas movie looks pretty.

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