- Nine amazing abandoned mansions at io9. Love.
- Nora Jemisin's exceptional guest of honor speech from Continuum.
- The unsavory history of European cannibalism.
- Genevieve lays out a cracking case that the Fast & Furious franchise is our time's Three Musketeers corollary.
- One of the most charming interviews ever, in which Jamie (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) conference calls in Brienne (Gwendoline Christie) to hilarious result.
- An important post about sexism in publishing from author Delilah Dawson.
- Speaking of sexism, see also this smackdown delivered by Phyllis Richman 52 years after Harvard asked her a personal question before it would admit her.
- Sarah Dessen and her editor Regina Hayes in conversation at Slate.
- Have you seen Neil Patrick Harris's opening number from the Tonys? Pure happiness.