Leo Tolstoy was born on this day in 1828.

Adam Kirsch takes a look at Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens over at Tablet.

Norman Rush talked with Weekend Edition.

Eli Valley contributes a comic to Gawker.

A bunch of images from the No Wave cinema movement.

Photographs of disasters that happened before 1920.

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