Joshua Ferris has some fiction in this week’s New Yorker.

Levi Asher looks back at the “only major hit” of the late E. L. Konigsburg, who died over the weekend.

Ben Greenman considers his Jewish characters.

Our love of Canadian bookstores grows and grows.

Evan Smith Rakoff drops a heap of Andy Griffith knowledge on us at Los Angeles Review of Books.

The Koch brothers are trying to buy up a bunch of newspapers. Because if you want to make a massive impact, you go print.

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