I can't believe how heartbreaking this is. I totally get why he's burned out and wants to move on and I also feel a bit like a cliche saying, "Where will I get my news now?" But the truth is that his was often the most coherent framing of political events out there. It was supposed to be satire, but it was always more…

I mean, it's not that different than the chubby guy at the McDonald's drive thru saying, "I'm not fat!" while the ripped guy on the treadmill laughs at you.

The average reader is not particularly aware of what the difference is between translations, let alone specific translators or editions of each book. I have a Master's degree in literature and I wouldn't know what translation of War and Peace I'd rather read without taking the time to thumb through the actual book.

To be fair, this is a terrible, awful, horrible trend that needs to lay down and die.

Damien Chazelle's nomination seems like it was given solely to guarantee us an "Adele Dazeem" repeat, no?

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel was the year's biggest surprise for me. I don't read a lot of dystopian, postapocoalyptic fiction and I was hesitant to give it a shot, but I couldn't put that book down. It was so compelling.

You probably can't read it in one sitting, depending on your tolerance level for brutality and bleakness, but it's hard to put down. Gay isn't asking you to luxuriate in anything. She's just giving it to you and daring you to look away. It's powerful as hell.

Yes. Easily one of the best family drama books I've read in years. Absolutely brilliant.

Does anyone think The West Wing would have stayed at the same quality if Sorkin had kept going for the next three years? It would have been better than what we got, no doubt, but I don't think Sorkin could have sustained it for much longer himself.

Didn't Sorkin and Josh Charles not get along, like, at all? That would seem to be a pretty bug hurdle towards a reunion.

Sarah is so much Lorelai's doppelganger that it's hard to remember that Lauren Graham was not the original choice for the part.

I think part of the problem, for me at least, is that the characters aren't developed at all outside of their relationship to one another. All you see is Relationship-Zelda and Relationship-Andrew, both of whom are in the new relationship twee stage and you don't ever get a break from that. Even their interactions…

Being a stay-at-home moms is in no way betraying feminism as long as the moms are involved in making the decision to stay at home because it's what makes them happy and what makes the most sense for them and their families. We know precious little about why/how Alicia stopped working when she had children (or at least…

Realistic? Sure. But still obnoxious. I want to throw a shoe at those kind of parents in real life.

No, I think she's smart enough to realize the ways that she's benefited from feminism. She might not be particularly vocal about supporting the cause of feminism—she's not a movement person and she's definitely not a joiner—but no way would she have been anti-feminist or dismissive of the movement as man-hating.

In my school, we had to pay $1 or $1.50, I think, unless you qualified for free lunch (meaning your parents signed a form that they made less than a certain amount). Junk food options cost extra, too. I don't know how universal the cost is, but that Time article said that a lot of students don't want to buy the…

I was always under the impression that schools had to provide some kind of lunch — though students did not have to eat it — and while there are some nutritional standards, they're pretty laughable (the long-running joke being that ketchup's considered a vegetable). I did some Googling, though, and it looks like…

Well clearly your private school was not good enough for Bravermen children.

I think that all schools are required to provide some kind of lunch for students, and because Kristina is determined that all of her students are special little one-percenter butterflies she has gone way, way overboard to make it perfect. I've never heard of that level of special attention, even at schools for kids…

I wanted to throw a shoe at my TV every time Julia said, "Sydney's not like that." Does she really not remember all the horribly cruel things Sydney said to Victor over the last two seasons? All that girl does is throw temper tantrums and all Julia does is make excuses that enable her child's terrible behavior.