• Sharon Olds, Lena Dunham, and Jennifer Egan on The Bell Jar. 
• Dark horse Antonio Munoz Molina wins the Jerusalem Book Prize. 
• Little-known books, blockbuster adaptations: a bittersweet colloquy. 
• The romance author Jessica Blair is really an eighty-nine-year-old vet named Bill, who has no problem with his nom de plume. 
• In “a reverse Fahrenheit 451,” firefighters carry books to safety.