On paper the adaptation of Team of Rivals looks like the greatest film ever.

• Arthur Marx, who wrote the best-selling book, Life With Groucho, about his father Groucho Marx (in case you couldn’t put that together), died yesterday at the age of 89.

• Ian Rankin (The Complaints) appeared on the most recent episode of The Bat Segundo Show.

• Is there such thing as a bad Elif Batuman interview?  The answer is actually no, and here is more proof.