"'That's My Middle West.' The Most Dazzling Paragraph of The Great Gatsby." Part of "By Heart," an ongoing feature at The Atlantic in which authors discuss paragraphs from classic works that they love enough to have committed to memory. This one's by Susan Choi, author of An American Woman and A Person of Interest.
An illustration from "The 10 Annoying Habits of Hearing People." This is part of a piece published by The Limping Chicken, the UK's independent deaf news and deaf blogs website, in which Charlie Swinbourne lets you know how not to react to a deaf person.