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Fashionable Romanticism, stopping the presses, and Wilde's witticisms: Today's TNR Reader

Editor’s Note: We’ll be running the article recommendations of our friends at TNR Reader each afternoon on The Plank, just in time to print out or save for your commute home. Enjoy!

Does the acid kaleidoscope of fashion month mark the return of Romanticism?
Los Angeles Review of Books | 19 min (4,700 words)

Vanishing point: How a 1962 strike foreshadowed the newspaper industry's slow decline. 
Vanity Fair | 23 min (5,821 words)

What's interesting about "interesting"? Our critical vocabulary and our art.
Slate | 5 min (1,236 words)

The Importance of Going Viral: An infographic take on Oscar Wilde's witticisms.
The Guardian | 3 min (750 words)