This Is Your Life on Kairaku Jigoku no Toriko (2019)Books, and Other News
On the Shelf
- The book lover’s dilemma, via Rena Maguire.
- Merriam-Webster’sis movin’ with the times, incorporating such newfangled phrases as the hideous bucket list, 2010-ish game changer, mysteriousrobocall, belatedmashup, usefulcrowdsourcing, unfortunatecyberbullying, and inevitableviral.
- If Marx lived today, speculates one biographer, “he would be a compulsive blogger, and picking Twitter fights with Andrew Sullivan and Naomi Klein.”
- Speaking of! Celebrate Easter (belatedly) by testing your knowledge of resurrections in literature.
- Genius in literature: a handy-dandy chart.
