Earlier today, I discussed the podcast I’ve done with Jianli Yang, the Chinese democracy activist, and hero. My colleague Chris McEvoy was good enough to “reawaken” the profile I wrote of Jianli in 2007: Here it is.

And, if you feel like a little musical reading, here is a review at The New Criterion of a concert that took place at the Salzburg Festival last night. It was by the Trio Zimmermann, headed by the eminent German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, and filled out by far-from-slouchy others.

P.S. Let me give you a little Impromptus-style item, while I’m at it. I was on the phone with AT&T — on hold — and kind of half-listening. There was some kind of ad saying, “It can wait.” I thought for a second it was in promotion of sexual abstinence. Instead, it had to do with texting.