¶ Matins: Peggy Nelson outlines the End of the Etiquette of the Individual in the Beginning of the Etiquette of the Flow. Or, in our view, the Apotheosis of ADD. (Hilobrow)

¶ Lauds: Yale Art Dean Robert Storr had a good time at the Kunsthaus Graz last year, but by and large he is horrified by “Death Star” contemporary art museums. (Frieze, via The Morning News)

¶ Prime: At FiveThirtyEight, Hale Stewart piles on a lot of numbers showing that the American economy has not given up manufacturing. The plethora of graphs is worth the wade. What we’re losing jobs to is not foreign factories but domestic productivity. (But maybe you knew that.) (via Abnormal Returns)

¶ Tierce: While readers are busy digesting Jonah Lehrer’s piece on depression in the Times Magazine — and his response to early criticism — we fastened on his contribution to a blog about insomnia, which ends with the following horrible conundrum, all too familiar to the Editor. (Frontal Cortex)

¶ Sext: How to grow a beard. At BYU, that is. (Cynical-C Blog; via Marginal Revolution)

¶ Nones: Here’s hoping that a Tennessee’s judge’s grant of political asylum — to a German couple that want to home-school their children, illegal in their native Germany — is overturned by a higher court. (NYT)

¶ Vespers: John Self likes The Unnamed more than he thought he would. Somewhat maddeningly, Mr Self asks if anyone has read Alan Lightman’s The Diagnosis, a novel with a seemingly similar “story.” We just gave our copy away! (The Asylum)

¶ Compline: Graham Robb writes about the semiotics of gargoyles, or somesuch. (London Review of Books)

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