• The Oxford Word of the Year is … selfie.
• Here is a series of cowboy poets, looking very authentically cowboy-ish indeed.
• Well, swell. Right-wing extremists destroyed a statue of the poet Radnóti Miklós, who died during the Holocaust, and are burning his books.
• “Wonderful Doris Lessing has died. You never expect such rock-solid features of the literary landscape to simply vanish. It’s a shock.” Margaret Atwood salutes the late laureate.