• Citing health concerns, Alice Munro says she will not travel to Sweden to accept her Nobel in person.
• “For the first time I felt myself in the presence of a talent greater than my own.” The long, strange friendship of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin.
• “People are messes, every one of us.” Editor Giancarlo DiTrapano talks Tyrant. 
• For its sixtieth anniversary, the Crime Writers’ Association has asked its six hundred writer-members to choose the best crime novel of all time. Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Raymond Chandler fight it out.
• Speaking of hot competition, the ten most dramatic deaths in fiction.