Books of the Times: Whence Come These Labyrinthine Victorian Locutions?
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Michael Cox's book has the ornate, curlicued linguistic niceties of a Dickensian period piece.
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As a magazine Vanity Fair captured the changing moods of two distinct periods of the 20th century in prose and pictures -- from the pre-War Jazz Age to the post Pop Modern.
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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By Allie Shah  By Allie Shah  MINNEAPOLIS - If Charles Dickens were alive today, he might be writing a text novella called "Gr8 Xpectations." A text novella is a mini-novel written in text messagespeak that's meant to be read in snippets on a cell phone.
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A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X.
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The author of Frankenstein: A Cultural History also collects monster memorabilia. Why are we so fascinated with Mary Shelley's nightmare vision?
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Comment is free: Alan Rusbridger: The Guardian you read today - whether on newsprint or on a screen - has its roots in the struggle for suffrage and free speech.
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Reviews of two new releases rife with magical realism: Pan's Labyrinth and The Fountain.
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Queue submissions being scarce, I suggest we all submit limericks for consideration.  Mod up your favorites.    I'm no poet, so I'll submit a favorite of my childhood:    There was a young woman named Bright,  Who traveled much faster than light    She set out one day  In a relative way    And returned on the previous night.    I'm afraid I don't remember the author.
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Britain&#39;s newest visitor attraction, a theme park dedicated to the novelist Charles Dickens, offers a taste of the grim world of Victorian London stalked by his characters like Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge and David Copperfield.
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The Onion Picker: Carmen Basilio and Boxing in the 1950s By Gary B. Youmans, Syracuse University Press , 214 pp., $24.95
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Allenati con l'enigmistica, il sudoku, i ditloidi. Tutte le sfide gratis del Fantavillage
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Although the pricey gadget provides a pleasurable way to enjoy literature, don't throw away your paper books just yet. By Tom Bentley.
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John Ruskin, a British art critic and author, said this about books: "All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time."
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The formerly outrÃ©, freaky and unthinkable now constitute business as usual in popular culture. And these have become outright selling points for books that eagerly capitalize on their kinks.
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"Pan's Labyrinth" is a political fable in the guise of a fairy tale. Or maybe it's the other way around.
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Arts & entertainment: US bookshops see salvoes exchanged between new versions of Tolstoy's epic.