Weekend Reading: October 2, 2015

It’s time: Translating Shakespeare into English.
So, the idea is to…?
Ikea for refugees.
Unfortunately for all the Lynne Truss types out there, punctuation is, has been, and will always be frustratingly inconsistent.
Is there water on Mars? If so, it’s all part of the liberal agenda.
The Martian: One astronaut’s review.
Diagnosis: Gay marriage derangement syndrome.
20 or 30 years ago, Americans eating and exercising exactly the same as they would today gained less weight.
Print and read: “Yesterday’s poets are today’s detectives”—An excerpt from Patti Smith’s new book.

Department of Weekend Reading: May 30, 2014

Where authoritarian nationalism is the name of the game.
Facebook now eavesdropping on everything being said around you.
And the South shall indeed rise (or is it fall?) again.
This is what Virginia Woolf looks like in a beard and turban.
Godzilla, he just keeps getting taller; so do skyscrapers.
In much of America, native-born people have fewer opportunities than the foreign-born.
Going to Sonic, AR-15 at the ready.
On the front lines with the dogs of war.
Print and read: science fiction doesn’t just predict the future, it can make it.

No more drinks on your commute: The end of the storied bar car.
Coming soon: more polarization!
Kids don’t read because their parents don’t: “We’re surrounded by an implicit anti-book agenda, and still we wonder why kids don’t read books.“
Steve Albini’s letter to Nirvana: “I have a nice 24-track studio in my house. Fugazi were just there, you can ask them how they rate it.”
Kara Walker’s massive Marvelous Sugar Baby sculpture at the old Domino sugar factory.
Your NASA photo of the week.
Today’s baby, swaddled in gadgets.
Morrissey to Crass to the Specials; some of the best hating Margaret Thatcher songs.
Reading the rock and roll gospel of the great Lester Bangs.
Print and read: Legos, IKEA, and the welfare state; the Scandinavian model for the future.