• Winnipeg, The World Capital of Sorrow, Allegedly. Morgan Falconer contemplates Winnipeg through the eyes of the Royal Art Lodge. (Saatchi Gallery) (Nice to know that someone is contemplating Winnipeg. The capital of sorrow sounds quite romantic to me. I'll have to start wearing more black.)
• The Censor in the Mirror is the title of an excellent essay by Ha Jin in The American Scholar. It concerns the Chinese Communist Party’s feared and hated Propaganda Department.