Why the heck would Martin Amis want to distance himself from his 1982 classic Invasion of the Space Invaders?

• Everybody weighs in on the death of journalist Anthony Shadid.

• Alexander Chee on “The Jeremy Lin Economy” at The Classical.

• We aren’t sure if the Lin Economy includes the book deal he’s going to land.

• The American boosterism of Junot Díaz and Garrison Keillor.

• Want to look like Juliet from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet?  Rookie tells you how.

• Joe Fassler at The Atlantic on Nathan Englander and why we keep talking about the Holocaust.

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