• “In Plath’s case, her writing began, soon after her death, to be relegated to a supporting role in a seductive, but intensely misleading, narrative of victimhood.” How to give the poet her due. 
• Are these the fifty key moments in English literature? Discuss. 
• The strange mystery of who firebombed London’s oldest anarchist bookshop, Freedom Books. 
• “Believe me, when you get a dozen people seated at a fairly formal dinner party, and they’ve all got on perfectly ridiculous chapeaus, the evening takes care of itself.” A display of Dr. Seuss’s hats is going up at the New York Public Library. 
• Related: Jon Stewart gets Seussical.