There are fashionable icons today, and they’re also just drab old basics. But fashion doesn’t matter that much really if you’ve read the most best-selling fashionable novels today by Elleanor Catton, Jonathan Lethem (Dissident Gardens’ has a piercing intro) and John Lanchester. What are those fashionable clothes compared to knowing the secrets behind American Communism, the mundane and yet sublime life of an academic and the tendrils of the truly amoral society whose love for money equals that of Harvey Oswald’s leanings to assassination. So after learning all these social news, read this infographic now to, uh, learn a thing or two about Beyonce’s fashion and art.