"At the end of the story, the hints that have been scattered like mouse droppings lead us to the postmodern hole in the book where the rodent got in": James Wood, as you might have guessed, is really not terribly keen on Paul Auster.
• How Jason Bourne survived his author, only to be horribly tortured.
• On books as an investment (broadly: you never can tell).
• A forensic artist does "literary criminals" (meaning fictional ones, not bad writers).
• Why limit sarcastic literary awards to Bad Sex?
• Manga at the British Museum.
