I have a new favorite columnist: Meghan Daum for the LA Times.

A genre comes of age: Seth Schiese for the NYT describes the newly released Grand Theft Auto IV as “a violent, intelligent, profane, endearing, obnoxious, sly, richly textured and thoroughly compelling work of cultural satire disguised as fun.”

Stanley Fish on French theorists in America.

Flash awesomeness: Magic Pen.