Presenting the Vanity Fair Blogopticon. Because the Internet needed to be more complicated. Link.

Ian McEwan interviews Steven Pinker. Or (musical stab, please) does he? Link.

Right-wing media getting you down? What about Ezra Pound, foreign correspondent? Link.

The UK Daily Telegraph has an excellent new book blog, called “Paper Tiger.” Discussed this week: Anthony Powell and the semi-colon. Do restrain yourselves. Link.

Your chance to interview William Shatner, history’s fifty-sixth greatest Canadian! Link.