- In Case I Disappear: William Rivers Pitt considers the Alien and Sedition Act of our day, new torture legislation that empowers Bush to designate American citizens “enemy combatants.” (Via.)
- James Wood argues that Cézanne is “probably the most ‘literary’ of the great modern painters.”
- Thomas Hardy said more autobiography can be found in his poems than in any of his other writings.
- Have you ever felt, Tayari Jones asks, that you were living out the plot of a book — including one of your own?