One better than the devil

"Academics are hedgehogs and I am a fox": Deborah Ross interviews Malcolm Gladwell for the Independent.

Tom Cox plays a round of golf with Judas Priest axman K. K. Downing (FT site registration required).

At the Guardian Review, Nicholas Lezard on the latest installment of David Kynaston's history of Britain in the twentieth century (lots of good snippets there).

Arthur Danto's post at the NYT site the other day tipped me off to the existence of MOMA's Flickr photoset from Marina Abramović's recent show. Jason Grote points me to the fact that one immediately recognizable sitter is Lou Reed!