• The lit-flick streak continues! The Palme d’Or is likely to go to one of several adaptations.
• As Harry Potter mania fades, hundreds of pet owls are being abandoned across England.
• How to open a new book.
• Quiche Lorraine, the comic.
• Need inspiration? Dial-a-poem!
• Andrew Ladd decodes Blurbese for the nonreviewer.
• When less is more: minimalist covers.
• Cineastes! Help save an endangered film before it’s too late!
• William Hazlitt, “On the Pleasure of Hating.”