You’ve probably heard the sad news about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s passing.

As if you didn’t have enough bad this weekend, René Ricard also passed away.

Amazon gets into the Christian publishing business.

Michelle Dean on “Our Young -Adult Dystopia.”

“In a rape culture, there is no burden on us to presume that she is not a liar, no necessary imperative to treat her like a person whose account of herself can be taken seriously.” – Aaron Bady at The New Inquiry on Dylan Farrow and Woody Allen.

50 years of Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come.” 

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