Anonymous Library Sculptures, and Other News

Anonymous, bookish sculptures have been popping up at Scottish libraries.
“It’s nice to go out with a bang”: Alice Munro may (or may not) retire.
This will, predicts The New Republic, result in the sort of tedious furor that accompanies any such statement.
Some pediatricians are prescribing books to small children: great! (Lollipops are, presumably, a thing of the past.)
Tom Wolfe’s next book, The Kingdom of Speech, is a “nonfiction account of the animal/human speech divide.”