Elissa Bassist has a thoughtful piece on Orange is the New Black at Medium; Elisabeth Donnelly looked into the books referenced on the show for Jacket Copy.

The New Inquiry looks at prison performances of Shakespeare.

Michelle Dean wrote about the retirements of Alice Munro and Philip Roth for Hazlitt.

The feuding between past and present members of Black Flag now includes a lawsuit.

Sarah McCarry chatted with Hilary T. Smith.

This weekend’s Solaris marathon reading made it to New York‘s Approval Matrix.

Artinfo has a look at how the New Museum is rescuing endangered media.

Alan Sepinwall is beginning a ten-years-later look back at The O.C. 

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