Publishing legend André Schiffrin has died, at seventy-eight.

Amazon and drones. In the immortal words of Pillow Talk, “some jokes are too obvious to be funny.”

Stephen Colbert disagrees.

Speaking of! Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson: “To the extent that Tyson has a predominant tone in Undisputed Truthit’s that of a Vegas stand-up comic, alternately self-loathing and self-aggrandizing, sometimes funny, sometimes merely crude.”