Random House has announced a paperback edition of its annotated version of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice. There have been explicated versions before, but perhaps none so exhaustive as this one. Linda Bree, writing for the Jane Austen Society of North America, called the hardcover "'The Most Annotated Pride and Prejudice' ever likely … Continue reading Pop-up Pride and Prejudice

Nominees for the 2007 Hugo Awards, honoring sci-fi's best, have been announced. To find out the winners, though, you have to go to Yokohama, site of this year's 65th World Science Fiction Convention, popularly known (if sci-fi fans can be said to be popular) as WorldCon.

I haven't written about the Morning News' Tournament of Books since it was announced. Truth to tell, I haven't read most of the books competing. But as the brackets dwindle down to the finals today, there's some fun snarking worth a mention.Yesterday's match-up was Gary Shteyngart's postSoviet farce Absurdistan and the one novel on the … Continue reading Let the (March) Madness End