“Highbrow gambling” is on the rise: Alex Donohue, spokesman for Ladbrokes, reports that betting on the Man Booker Prize with his company is up from £4,000 in 2005 to £15,000… Read more »

For the second year in a row now, Haruki Murakami has emerged as the favorite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, having been a frontrunner for the past decade. The… Read more »