Resemblance of things past: Günter Grass's shadowy account of his long and eventful life, Peeling the Onion, is far less convincing than his fiction (and more and more and more and more). Gullible’s travels: What happens when an author writes about a country they have never been to? The quixotic don: The cultural pull of Cervantes' creation runs dark and deep, influencing Latin American literature, music and art. Writer Jorge Luis Borges saw mazes as a metaphor for life. Two decades after his death, a real one is helping to keep his name alive.

JT LeRoy, the authorial “other” whom the writer Laura Albert employed as her alter ego and self-protective proxy in the world, was found to be not just a fictional creation, but a fraud, and more on the tension between art and commerce. No bad authors: Reasonableness is

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