Defending the New York Public Library at NYRB.

Our own Tobias Carroll on Terese Svoboda’s Bohemian Girl at Los Angels Review of Books.

Guy Cunningham at Bookslut on Susan Sontag.

Etgar Keret talks to Brad Listi at the Other People podcast.

There’s a collection of 1980s Taliban poetry that’s got some people upset.

The 1966 New York Times article on hip advertising agencies that Pete Campbell from Mad Men hated so much.

When Wilt met Elgin on the playground.

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