“Social crawler,” “polterguy,” “fractose intolerant”: Ian Crouch explores the practice of coining new words. #books

Shouts & Murmurs: "My dad is way cool and knows much about barrels." Letters from Yevgeny, the 1980s Russian pen pal #humor

At the studio with Shantell Martin, an artist known for her stream-of-consciousness drawings: http://nyr.kr/1biZDEr #art  

Leo Carey revisits the Liszt sonata on an iPad app. #music

As cities on both coasts become less affordable, Elizabeth Greenspan writes about the new meaning of “Manhattanization”: turning a city into a playground for the wealthiest inhabitants

Our own bearded Richard Brody on baseball, beards, and who he's rooting for in the World Series: "The shaven and crew-cut athlete suggests a martial fury that is joyless—a grim, self-denying efficiency that may work in war, but is exactly the opposite of the essence of baseball, which, for all its competitive ardor, is playtime."

Maria Konnikova explores the psychology of online comments and the conflicting effects of anonymity on the Internet: "The moment you shed your identity the usual constraints on your behavior go, too."

Last week, the photographer Matt Eich hosted our Instagram feed from Greenwood, Mississippi, where he has been documenting the town’s race and class disparity for the past several years. A look at the photos: http://nyr.kr/17fO6sS #photography

David Remnick on Roger Angell's 1980 profile of the great Cardinals starter Bob Gibson. #baseball #longreads  

When is a medical treatment unnecessary? #medicine