We’re sad to learn of the passing of journalist and author Michael Hastings at the age of 33.

On Balzac’s fifty cups of coffee a day, caffeine, and creativity.

Philip Larkin on your mum and dad.

James Franco on Man of Steel.

Maurice Sendak draws Tolstoy.

Paying tribute to a 19th century Greenwich Village blacksmith.

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