One Man’s Trash, and Other News

Discarded books from the Birmingham Public Library become the basis for a series of pieces by local artists.
P. D. James claims to have solved a 1931 cold case in the course of researching a mystery. In 1841, Edgar Allan Poe’s literary gumshoeing was less successful.
The rise of Denglisch—and the introduction of words like shitstorm and cashcow into the German lexicon—is understandably controversial.
Here are some bookish wedding cakes. We feel like that last one is really the cake of a match made in heaven. Mazel tov!