I got sorta tripped up while writing an essay yesterday, so there will be no real writing from me this week. But never fear! I’ve put together a big ol’ list of other stuff you can read:

– “A Blackbird in the Hand: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kate Bush” by Iain Cook (TheTalkhouse)

– “‘Not to Put Too Fine a Point On It’: How Dickens Helped Shape the Lexicon” by Ben Zimmer (Vocabulary.com)

– “Who Killed Adulthood?” by Sady Doyle (In These Times)

– “Europe’s Anti-Semitism Comes Out of the Shadows” by Jim Yardley (New York Times

– “Hunting For the Source of the World’s Most Beguiling Folk Music” by Amanda Petrusich (New York Times Magazine)

– “Who Is Su” by Dan P. Lee (New York Magazine)

– “A Cockroach Crawled On My Face And I’ll Never Be The Same” by Joanna Borns (Buzzfeed)

– “The End of the Mitford Sisters” by Michelle Dean (Gawker Review of Books)

– “The Last Amazon” by Jill Lepore (The New Yorker)

– “An Unlikely Ballerina” by Rivka Galchen (The New Yorker)

Until next week or whatever…