Lorde and Eleanor Catton hanging out in bed together. [via]

The FBI kept files on Camus and Sartre.

Kim Jong-II gave a speech in 1988 where he tried to get North Koreans to write science fiction.

If you’re bored and want to watch a documentary on Don DeLillo…

Ezra Glinter takes a look at two books on Sholem Aleichem.

Hors d’oeuvres really do need to make a comeback.

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