THE FEED: JULY 29TH

What we're reading:

The Last Supper grows bigger
(ARTnews): Portion sizes in depictions of the Last Supper have increased over time

Dame badass, Helen Mirren
(Atlantic): "[S]he's at her best when she's playing someone with a genuine unpleasant or strange edge"

"In Defense of Amazon"
(New Republic): Don't blame the behemoth for the publishing industry's failures

Today's quote:

"In a world of Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter (not to mention texting), pithy allusion substitutes for exposition. Where once the Internet seemed an opportunity for unrestricted communication, the increasingly commercial bias of the medium—'I am what I buy'—brings impoverishment of its own."

~ Tony Judt, "Words" (New York Review of Books)

(Via The Economist)

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com