• The book lover’s dilemma, via Rena Maguire.
• Merriam-Webster’sis movin’ with the times, incorporating such newfangled phrases as the hideous bucket list, 2010-ish game changer, mysteriousrobocall, belatedmashup, usefulcrowdsourcing, unfortunatecyberbullying, and inevitableviral.
• If Marx lived today, speculates one biographer, “he would be a compulsive blogger, and picking Twitter fights with Andrew Sullivan and Naomi Klein.”
• Speaking of! Celebrate Easter (belatedly) by testing your knowledge of resurrections in literature.
• Genius in literature: a handy-dandy chart.