• Two respected artists died last week: in Winnipeg, Bruce Head (Winnipeg Free Press), and in New York, David Levine. (The New York Times)(The New York Times)(CBC News) They'll both be missed.

• A Degas is missing from a Marseille museum. (CBC News)(The Guardian)
• In praise of Raymond Chandler. (spiked review of books)
• The sex life of Grace Kelly. (The New Yorker)