Well, This Is Depressing, and Other News

The Oxford Word of the Year is … selfie .
Here is a series of cowboy poets, looking very authentically cowboy-ish indeed.
Well, swell. Right-wing extremists destroyed a statue of the poet Radnóti Miklós, who died during the Holocaust, and are burning his books.
“Wonderful Doris Lessing has died. You never expect such rock-solid features of the literary landscape to simply vanish. It’s a shock.” Margaret Atwood salutes the late laureate.