“All They Do Is Eat,” And Other News

“It’s about eating lunch. They eat salad and cake. All they do is eat”: in which a two-year-old judges books by their covers.

“He tends to devoice a lot of the fricatives, but I take that purely as an idiolectal variant”: an (in-depth) interview with the linguist who created Game of Thrones’ multiple languages.

Fifty authors, including Hilary Mantel, Tom Stoppard, and John Banville, have contributed annotated first editions to an English PEN auction. Which is to say, they can (theoretically) be yours.

The Henry Miller Memorial Library decamps temporarily to Miller’s hometown of Brooklyn for the Big Sur Brooklyn Bridge festival.
Ishiguro on film, Tóibín on opera: six novelists on their second-favorite art forms.