News Summary

• This week in literary history, James Joyce and Marcel Proust meet once (and never again) The coming-of-illness narrative as a bildungsroman.
• The scrappy perseverance of England’s lower-league football teams.
• What happens when billionaires control the media?
• Is Xi Jinping really think China is Athens and the US is Sparta?
• And is Trump Getting Any of This?
• Villains Are Just More Interesting Than Heroes (and More F*ckable, If We’re Being Frank)