Russian dystopian novels are cool, but late-70s Polish novels satirizing the totalitarian state are pretty sweet also.  The Guardian looks at Tadeusz Konwicki’s (pictured above, via) A Minor Apocalypse.

• The New York Times gets a Tumblr. Meanwhile in Gray Lady land: the paywall isn’t a paywall.

• Taffy Brodesser-Akner at Salon on having Republican friends.

• The flowers and sunsets of Sid Vicious.