Lynn Hirschberg takes nine pages of potshots at M.I.A. without managing to say anything insightful.
In retaliation, M.I.A. tweets Lynn's mobile phone number so fans can call with reactions.
NYPL's Rebecca Federman blogs a primer on culinary research.
Dead lefty writer Henry Roth has a new book coming out. The previewed excerpt seems a little plodding. (Via.)
T.H. Breen's interesting new book on popular insurgency in revolutionary America.
Previously unpublished sections of Malcolm X's autobiography are read out.
Spill.
And it seems that southern artsy folks never get tired of the Southern gothic bit:
