The American Dialect Society—how do we join?—has voted becausethe word of the year. They chose becausebecause because“exploded with new grammatical possibilities in informal online use.”

In the Midwest, towns are living without Borders. (The defunct bookstore chain, not the metaphorical limitation.) Some independent bookstores have even cropped up in its place.

How did Reddit’s brilliant AMA series go from geeky to mainstream? (Did you know The Paris Reviewdid one last year?)

“Of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else’s. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.” An expansive interview with the singular Kenneth Anger.