Your to-read list for the day

-Flavia's post on some not-useful new-pope commentary. -Stephen Metcalf on the brand that is Brooklyn. -Robert Huber on race in Philad...

"Luxury"

Gawker and I are, amazingly, in sincere agreement: young children brutally murdered by, it seems, the babysitter is the story. Not how fanc...

Nostalgia for auto-parts

Jeremiah Moss's nostalgia for the West Chelsea of recent yore makes for a nice bit of anti-High-Line contrarianism, but doesn't add...

"'It's going to feel like up north now.'"

These are words I never thought I'd read: "University of Chicago bought the former Borders bookstore at 1539 E. 53rd St. in Hyde Pa...