See how many times a word or phrase is used in a book! Hours of … okay, maybe not fun, but hours.

New research suggests that there exists a family of “ultraconserved words”—including ashes, man, worm, and not—that have survived, virtually unchanged, for fifteen thousand years.

Amanda Knox tells the Timeswhat she reads. Among others: Marilynne Robinson, Vladimir Nabokov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jonathan Safran Foer, and David Foster Wallace.

The Harper Lee copyright fracas inspires a list of literary lawsuits.

“I’ve been getting death threats.” Charlaine Harris on the end of Sookie Stackhouse.