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• David Bromwich on the election in the New York Review of Books? (“Lower, meaner, duller campaigns there have been, but never one in which so many issues were treated with such studious avoidance by the presidential candidates of both parties.”) —Steve Bogira
• About the U.S. government’s ever-evolving “disposition matrix” of militants targeted for killing? (Romney: We can’t kill our way out of this mess. Obama administration: We’re sure as hell gonna try.) —Sam Worley
• That story about the small Greek island where people “forget to die”? (I’d hoped the phenomenon was attributable to some sort of electromagnetism straight out of Lost—but probably has more to do with a culture that takes lots of naps, starts work at 11 a.m., drinks plenty of wine, and pays zero attention to clocks. Then again I’m only on page 2, so maybe I haven’t gotten to the electromagnetism part yet.) —Mara Shalhoup
