Menagerie, not museum, for words that live: The newly published Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary reflects the transformations unfolding in the unabridged third edition of the O.E.D. Tracing the history of Helvetica: A film about a font?! Yes, and it's gripping, too, showing how a sleek typeface has encouraged good design and helped to shape big ideas. Will the increasingly cozy relationship between Hollywood and publishing companies change the way novelists approach their work? For more than a decade, inventors have tried to come up with a high-tech version of that most sacred of analog content delivery systems: the book. Amazon debuts Kindle just as the National Endowment for the Arts says reading is fading. A review of The New Granta Book of the American Short Story. The art of fiction and the art of the interview: A review of The Paris Review Interviews, Volume II. A review of The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973-1982. Saul Bellow on God: An excerpt from Do You Believe? Conversations on God and Religion by Antonio Monda. A review of The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski. From LA Weekly, a claim that Charles Bukowski was a Nazi sympathizer delays effort to save his bungalow. Christopher Hitchens says "Martin Amis is no racist".
