Was one of the nominees for the National Book Award in the Young Adult literature category a mistake?
Teju Cole brings a “literary horsepower to his tweets that’s a little hard to tease apart with conventional critical methods. For one, his fait divers — which he also calls “small fates” — often deploy an elusive irony or the logic-dazing bluntness of a Zen koan,” Matt Pearce writes at The New Inquiry.
What happened to all the sex in Alan Hollinghurst novels?
The New York Times runs a hard-hitting review of their executive editor’s new book about puppies: Jill Abramson “is a powerful journalist few would dream of discounting,” the Times’ John Grogan writes, “And yet, when it comes to her dogs, she pleads guilty to being a hopeless pushover.”
A newspaper software architect explains what’s so terrible about word clouds.
