Important soccer thing you should read even if you don’t like soccer: Aleksandar Hemon on the retirement of Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson at The New Republic.

When Leonard Michaels tells you to take care of the donkey…

Aimee Phan and Julia Fierro talk about being moms and writers.

Rosie Schaap talks gin.

Don’t worry about the bugs in your cheese.

Sufjan Stevens is composing a ballet.

The floating winery of Paris.

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