Maurice Sendak illustrates Tolstoy.

And speaking of collaborations! Appropriately enough, there is now an interactive app for William Shakespeare’s Star Wars.

Everyone loves Bloomsday; why no Dalloway Day? (Dalloday?)

Ten words for which we could really use English equivalents. (Although, really, we should just learn the ones we don’t know. Especially age-otori.)

“Gertrude Stein, with her gnomish, arty, aphoristic tendencies, would seem to be ideal. ‘There is no there there’ may be one of the great proto-tweets.”