• A Massachusetts Good Samaritan found twenty thousand dollars hidden in the pages of a used book and is now trying to find the rightful owner.
• The real question: Why would an artist reinterpret Smiths titles as the covers of Penguin paperbacks?
• Reactions from around the world to Philip Roth’s retirement.
• A list of other notable literary retirements.
• And speaking of retirements, Salman Rushdie and John le Carré have ended their long-running feud.