From Bruce Connew's photography series Stopover. Selections of the series were published in EDIT 45

In The New Yorker Michael Chabon muses on the semiotics of tights. Over at Salon, novelist Stephen Marche works at stripping Robbe-Grillet of his literary superhero garb. (Marche also happens to have an interestingly self-aware story, “For the Other Eugene Schiefflin,” in this issue of Fiction.) Los Angeles Times raves about “the Asterix and Odelisk of literary magazines,” One Story and Ninth Letter. Seattle’s weekly alternative newspaper, The Stranger, praises “a brand new literary magazine that’s actually good,” Murdaland: Crime Fiction for the 21st Century. Feeling badly for neglecting lit mags, Mark Sarvas plugs his favorite recent issues at Elegant Variation. The New Pages blog highlights arguments from the left, with Dissent magazine pondering what’s wrong with academic boycotts, and Noam Chomsky giving some “words on terrorism” in Mother Jones. For all internet writers and readers (yes, you), Cory Doctorow writes on Boing Boing about “Why Free Reading Is Important.” German literary journal EDIT publishes some fascinating photographs of Indian-Fijian migration and living in an age of surveillance by Bruce Connew. The Kenyon Review blog gives a sneak peek of their upcoming issue. And it’s nice to hear short story writer Peter La Salle say in a Bookslut interview that, “In America we’re really lucky to have the vibrant literary magazine scene. I think it’s probably done more than anything to keep serious short fiction alive and thriving here.” We couldn’t agree more.