The Paris Review

• The book lover’s dilemma, via Rena Maguire.
• Merriam-Webster’s is movin’ with the times, incorporating such newfangled phrases as the hideous bucket list, 2010-ish game changer, mysterious robocall, belated mashup, usefulcrowdsourcing, unfortunate cyberbullying, and inevitable viral.
• If Marx lived today, speculates one biographer, “he would be a compulsive blogger, and picking Twitter fights with Andrew Sullivan and Naomi Klein.”
• Speaking of! Celebrate Easter (belatedly) by testing your knowledge of resurrections in literature.
• Genius in literature: a handy-dandy chart.

Here is a mood index chart for Les Misérables. Red indicates negative emotions. There is a reason miserable is in the title.