In this week’s issue of New York, Emily Nussbaum reviews Glee with an emphasis on Chris Colfer’s Kurt Hummel: “There’s something at once original and old-fashioned about Glee’s evocation of doomed drag-queen longing in a young boy’s body. Kurt isn’t a sweet victim or a sassy sidekick: He’s a moral mixture, seizing center stage.” David Edelstein calls Nicole Holofcener’s Catherine Keener–starring Please Give “an engagingly high-strung comedy about lack of empathy and the gnawing guilt that can attend it.” Sam Anderson says Anne Carson’s book-in-a-box Nox is “a brilliantly curated heap of scraps” worth cleaning your desk for.