1. A brief housekeeping post about our "Middlemarch" book club's next "meeting" and Rebecca Mead's upcoming NYPL event.

  2. Ryan Blomberg creates a gorgeous animated world populated by stalwart female commuters.

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  3. Christian Brown on the longstanding tradition of religious themes in science fiction.

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  4. SA Jones, an Australian novelist, writes about her experience of reading "Wuthering Heights," and the impact it's had on her life and work.

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  5. Liz Watson presents a helpful tutorial for what makeup to wear when conducting your satanic rituals.

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  6. The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup, and puts out a formal call for submissions on trans* issues.

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  7. Some artwork about the true mystery of faith.

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  8. It would be different, is the point I'm trying to make, from how it is now, if G.R.R. Martin wrote our science news.

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  9. It's time for some impassioned debate about the Star Wars Expanded Universe continuity.

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  10. Steph Georgopulos, on what it means to be invisibly biracial in plain sight.

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  11. Rhian Sasseen on the story behind "Left on Pearl," a recent documentary on the little-known 1971 feminist takeover of 888 Memorial Drive.

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  12. Holli Michele takes us through the exciting online world of buying a vintage princess coat.

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  13. Lynne Elkins, on the science of glass and the beauty of lava flows.

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  14. Some questions inspired by the I, Frankenstein trailer.

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  15. Welcome to another perfect installment of Kids in the Hall Monday.

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