In Matter, Rachel Syme ponders the meaning of the Selfie: “What selfie-haters fear, deep down, is a growing army of faces they cannot monitor, an army who does not need their approval to march ahead. They fear the young, the technologically savvy, the connected. They fear a community they feel excludes them.” (The only thing I fear is my extra chin-skin being captured from the wrong angle.)

+ “What they described resembles a medieval reality show.” WaPo takes you inside the surreal world of the Islamic State’s propaganda machine.

+ “It looked like a battlefield.” The full story of what happened in the Bataclan.

+ “Every season since 1971, the gaping maw of the whale awaits me. I am to be swallowed, along with the hopes of any baseball team I care about, into the belly of the beast and spit up in time to do it all again when pitchers and catchers report. I gotta get right with God.” David Simon: The frauds of memory, the limits of penitence. And baseball.