Ayn Rand received Social Security and Medicare payments under a false name.   Rand “despised government interference and felt that people should and could live independently… She didn’t feel that an individual should take help.”

• Kafka gets a makeover.

• A Stranger On The Planet By Adam Schwartz, is being hailed at the “first great Jewish novel of 2011.”

• J.D. Salinger was a real human being, just like you and me.

• Nick Kroll talks to A.V. Club.