The Friday Column is on vacation this week. In the meantime, print out some of these articles for weekend reading.
New fiction by Jonathan Lethem in The New Yorker.
Scott McLemee on the recently deceased Jean Baudrillard.
The Virginia Quarterly review on literary quarterlies.
Andrew Delbanco on the shrinking number of poor people in America’s institutes of higher education.
William Alexander on Scott McCloud’s influence on comics.
M.S. Smith on his 20 favorite films.
Lenora Todaro of Bookforum on Tom McCarthy’s new novel Remainder.
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas
Bad Books
The Disappearing Digital Data
Beckett’s Poetry
Imperial Fictions
Theresienstadt and the Problem of Knowledge in the Modern World
Reality Hunger Review @ B&N Review
Trash in Contemporary Literature
New @ TQC: JC Hallman & AWP
New @ TQC Sam Lipsyte Interview

Weekend Reading
BookSlut interviewed science fiction author Justine Larbalestier last month.
Voyages Of Imagination is a cool site that tracks new Star Trek books. I really enjoyed the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels (and honestly the Voyager ones weren…