literature The, creepiest word in Macbeth Rob Beschizza

literature The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle announces new novel, "Devil House" Thom Dunn

art The home of shockingly bad sci-fi book covers Jess Sabine

libraries Read Robert Louis Stevenson's handwritten manuscript for "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Gareth Branwyn

literature That time Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald measured dicks Thom Dunn

literature Poems generated by finding midpoints between how words sound and are spelled Clive Thompson

writing Join Thom Dunn and "Nobody People" author Bob Proehl for an online convo about writing, whiskey, and X-Men Thom Dunn

literature Cornell English Department votes to change name to "Department of Literatures In English" Thom Dunn

books Number-crunching the New York Times' bestseller list is not a good look for diversity Thom Dunn

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literature Someone started a literary magazine dedicated to Taco Bell Thom Dunn

apps Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones's last major project was this Canterbury Tales app David Pescovitz

politics Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic

literature Woman discovers 'secret' coded message in John Milton poem 'Paradise Lost' Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Millennials are killing Poe's Raven Cory Doctorow

tech You can read beautifully illustrated novels in the New York Public Library's Instagram account John Struan

books Deluxe edition of Philip K. Dick's Ubik John Struan

books Tolkien's Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is probably a misogynist satire of women's rights campaigner Victoria Sackville-West Cory Doctorow

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politics An annotated bibliography of anarchism in science fiction Cory Doctorow