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The winner of the Literary Review’s eighteenth annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been announced! We’re still reeling over the fact that Tony Blair was snubbed, but Rowan Somerville, author of The Shape… Read more »

Back in September — as reported on MobyLives — Michel Houellebecq caused a stir when he admitted that his Goncourt-winning novel La carte et le territoire included passages he’d lifted verbatim,… Read more »

Thanks to NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday, we now know that April 11, 1954, was the most boring day ever. Robert Siegel interviewed William Tunstall-Pedoe, a Cambridge educated computer scientist, who… Read more »

NPR’s Talk of the Nation recently rebroadcast a 1993 “Science Friday” show about the exciting possibilities of the internet. It’s a remarkable look at the foreignness, naivety, and prescience of… Read more »